22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

 26 The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

 27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?”
      ”If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

 29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
      He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

 30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
      He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

 31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
      He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

 32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
      He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

 33 When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
My cousin has a friend who bought a Blythe doll and the clothes of the doll was contaminated with the dye … which obviously caused the doll to look quite unlike its original appearance. The friend had another friend, a law student, who later helped out and said a few words to the shopkeeper … as the situation went quite unfriendly … my cousin’s friend did not get what she wanted ie. a replacement of the body of the doll and further, her ’law’ friend also backed out to help her. 

As i am no longer so interested to be on the msn nowadays … believing if friends have to find you, they will find you in one way or the other … and just after Christmas … i was online waiting to see which friend might give me a Christmas wish or two. Anyway, it turns out that no one gave me one … but just before i got offline, my cousin gave me a yell, and spontaneously i replied to all her questions and helped her friend … though i should be studying hard for exams, haha!

I told her friend to write a demand letter and if that doesn’t work, then she could sue the shopkeeper at the Small Claims Tribunal. Her friend was happy because I helped her in this way … in terms of free advice, you see. Though no legal representation is needed in the Small Claims Tribunal, i was willing to help because putting her situation in my own shoes, I would feel equally angry and upset if my cameras or lenses went wrong and the shopkeeper refuses to address my problems fairly. I was thinking that I should love my neighbour as I love myself.

Today, my cousin sent me another email as to proof read the demand letter, i suddenly remember the topic of ’access to justice’ in my first year of uni. I remember how adamant i was that people can easily open a list of lawyers and go out searching for help … but actually people are confused with the legal system, they do not know where to start and what people can help them. They might not know that there are legal services at the District Council office to help them. It is the problem when they remain silent as to their own problems or feel to overwhelmed with the legal system which becomes the real problem.

As i went through the daily bread passage below, i thought about the question of justice again. Well, I don’t know whether my cousin’s friend will get what she wants in the end. It is sooooo true that ‘the best judges on this each aren’t always right or fair; But God, the Righteous Judge of all, Wrongs no one in His care’.

Re-reading the passage from Genesis, our God gives people chances to turn back from their wrongs … He is a God who is willing and always ready to forgive our sins! It is only when we continue in our wrongs that we hurt His heart and chooses to punish us. God is always faithful to those who believe in Him. Thank you for being a righteous God.

I also want to say thanks to You because you have answered my prayer – i remember i kept on asking You why i should pursue law since July. Today, you have made me reflect on the reason I chose law after graduating high school … because there’s injustice in our society and being a Christian, i am duty bound to shine like a Christian and treat the friends and people I meet with a gracious spirit.

From Dailybread

John Grisham is well known for his courtroom novels—fast-paced tales of lawyers and victims, authorities and wrongdoers. However, his book The Innocent Man is not fiction. It is a real-life story of injustice. It tells of the brutal murder of a young woman and the two men who, though innocent, were convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. Only with the advent of DNA testing were they proven innocent and spared from execution after 17 years of suffering wrongly. At long last, justice prevailed.

Everyone desires justice. But we must recognize that our human frailty makes it challenging to mete out true justice. And we can be bent toward revenge, making a casualty out of the pursuit of it.

It’s helpful to remember that perfect justice can be found only in God. Abraham described Him with the rhetorical question, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Gen. 18:25). The necessary answer is yes. But even more, His courtroom is the one and only place where we can be certain that justice will prevail.

In a world filled with injustice, we can take the wrongs done to us, submit them to the Judge of all the earth, and trust Him for ultimate justice.  — Bill Crowder

The best of judges on this earth
Aren’t always right or fair;
But God, the Righteous Judge of all,
Wrongs no one in His care. —Egner