Exodus 21:33–34
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that loves to talk about justice. We hear cries for social justice, economic justice, environmental justice, and a whole host of other justices invented yesterday afternoon. But these grand, abstract crusades almost always serve to distract from the mundane, concrete, and personal responsibilities that constitute true justice. The modern world wants to rearrange the globe but refuses to clean its own room. It wants to redistribute the wealth of nations but won't pay back the neighbor whose lawnmower it broke. The book of Exodus, after the breathtaking deliverance from Egypt and the thunderous declaration of the Ten Commandments from Sinai, does not pivot to a treatise on abstract political theory. These are not arbitrary rules for a primitive society of goat-herders. They are inspired applications of God's unchanging character to the real world where real people live.