Category T.M. Moore – Daily Devotionals

Justice for the Poor: No Preferential Option “You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial…

Justice for the Poor: A Perpetual Obligation For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Deuteronomy 15:11 It’s a little tricky sometimes trying to apply the principles of Israel’s Old Testament theocracy to the Church’s calling and…

Distributive Justice “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for…

Retributive Justice “If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.” Leviticus 24:19,…

Restorative Justice “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his…

Preventive Justice “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.” Exodus 22:6 In this statute we see…

Obligatory Justice “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.” Leviticus 19:13 In Biblical terms, justice is a jewel of five facets, mounted…

God Seeks Justice For the Word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice…. Psalm 33:4, 5 Christians should be concerned about justice. Questions of just practices and procedures come…

God Is Just This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of…

Not Without Cost The second great commandment “And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:39 “Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among…