You,
“Do
you want justice or judgement?”
A high horse is a funny
thing. You can see everyone else so clearly, their faults laying bare. You can
point them out from your bird’s eye view with accuracy and precision, rip them
apart bit by bit. Yet none of that perspective helps you when it comes to
seeing yourself clearly.
It’s an appealing kind of
superiority because it works just as well for the people closest to you as it
does for complete strangers. From that height, your all seeing eye can take in
the world. Unfortunately, like many other things, it eats away at you. You
cannot point out another person’s flaws without leaving yours visible and
vulnerable. No matter how proud you are of your achievements in that moment,
your finger pointing cannot absolve you of your own imperfections.
What you are attempting to
do is clear: “look at them and what they are doing. What will become of them?
It is not right that they get away with doing such a thing”. Herein lies the
problem, however. In your narrow focus you have failed to realise that where
you would seek forgiveness for yourself, you want judgement for others. Where
you would look for redemption, you ask that someone else receive punishment.
You claim it is justice you seek, of course. But true justice would implicate
you too.
No one is exempt from the
all seeing eye of the ultimate judge. If it is justice you truly seek then
surely you are prepared for what is to come; inevitably you too must pay a
price. Would you be blameless if you were held up to the light? Would you be
found without faults, without stain? Or would you be just as bad, maybe even
worse, than the people you have been turning your nose up at?
The truth is, no one is
holding you up to the light just yet. Not truly. No one is examining everything
you do right down to the core of you are. Moreover redemption, forgiveness,
unending mercy, an abundance of love are all readily available, still.
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