A statue titled, Justice and Mercy, outside the Beeson Law Library on the Samford campus. The Angel of Mercy is staying the sword of the Lady of Justice.
He has showed you, O man, what is good.And what does the Lord require of you?To act justly and to love mercyand to walk humbly with your God.
"To act justly and to love mercy" what a curious combination. To act justly would seem to mean punish those who disobey God? Ooooo and I can be good at that. Oh, yeah, people's sins are soooo easy to see. (Other people's sins, that is.) But what happens when you combine that with "love mercy"? That's the hard part. Forgiving people and not just the poor and downtrodden. But those who have attacked you personally. Because isn't that exactly what Jesus did on the cross? He served out what justice demanded in order to have mercy on us. Justice and mercy - the two hands of God. You can't have one without the other.
Lord knows.
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