15In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Jeremiah 33:15-16
9The humble He guides
in justice, and
the humble He teaches His way.
Psalms 25:9
12And may the Lord
make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as
we do to you, 13so that He may
establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
1Thes. 3:12-13
In the volumes Jesus often speaks of justice in terms of punitive justice but he also speaks of it in terms of love and what is owed between God and man. He speaks of what was necessary to Justice to not only redeem man but to reinstate him into the Kingdom of His Will.
"Justice required that My Divine Will should have a
human nature at its disposition, and that this human nature should not
present any opposition, so that the Kingdom of My Will would be able to extend
Its reign in the midst of creatures.
There is great reason for
this, because a human nature had taken away from creatures the rights of
the Divine Will to reign, and so another was necessary to restore Its rights to
them. Therefore, My coming upon the
earth was not for Redemption alone; rather the primary purpose was to form
the Kingdom of My Will in My Humanity in
order to re-give It to creatures. If
that were not so, My coming upon the earth would have been an incomplete work, not worthy of a God who
could do nothing less than restore creation to its original state, and restore
the original order of things as they came forth from Our creative hands -
namely, that Our Will should reign in everything".
Vol 21, March 16, 1927
It's in the early Volumes while speaking on the virtue of obedience he speaks of the original state of man prior to his fall. He refers to it as original justice.
“Obedience is so glorified because she has the virtue of unveiling the human passions from their very roots. She destroys in the soul everything which is earthly and material, and to her great honor she gives back to the soul her original state – that is, the way she was created by God in her original justice, before being cast out of the terrestrial Eden. And in this sublime state, the soul feels strongly drawn to everything that is good; she feels all that is good, holy and perfect as inborn within herself, and greatest horror at even the shadow of evil."
Vol. 4, Nov. 8, 1900
We often think of justice in terms of fairness, of right action and what is owed to us and what punishment is deserved in the course of Justice. Too often we don't think of what is owed to God. God's idea of True Justice involves the loving exchanges due between a Father and a child and although we have cast aside those rights given to us before the fall, God our Father has not. He is determined to reinstate us to the point of original Justice to continue his games of love with his children. He speaks tenderly of the value of an "I love you" from the creature when it is united to the Divine Will and the justice it gives him.
"Now your ‘I love you’ unites itself to the
Divine punctuation and punctuating it it knows the value of our characters, it
learns to read our page,
understands with just ideas how much we have done for her love and she receives
the most beautiful and moving expression of her Creator and she gives Us the
little tribute, she pays Us the little wealth that We
with love of justice await
from creatures."
Vol. 31, Jan. 14, 1933
He speaks with pain on how man didn't appreciate the gift of the Divine Will in the beginning and how he lost "the duty of justice" in which he would receive the love and gratitude of the creature.
"Beyond this, our Will was a gratuitous gift that we gave
to man, he paid us nothing in order to have it, nor did He have money or
sufficient means in order to pay us, if not but the most vile paper of his human
will, that for his misfortune, he didn’t even want to lend in order to hold our
great gift. And then we were his most
tender and most loving Father and between
Father and children accounts are not made,
because one knows that the Father must give to the children, and they are
obligated with the duty of justice, to love and hold with esteem that which
the Father gives them. Behold therefore
the necessity of the knowledges on the Divine
Will, and we make them degree by degree, so
that the creature appreciates this gift so
great, that we want to gratuitously give
them. The knowledge generates the
appetite, the desire to know more,
and the human volition is disposed little by little to undergo the
transformation, the unification of the Divine
Will and we without making accounts, neither mind if she can pay us or not, we
will put there our image and the incalculable number of a divine value, and we
will be content to see our children rich and happy with our same
divine happiness and riches.”
Vol. 31, 27, 1932
Back again in Vol. 4 he gives us a short but decisive talk on Justice.
“You must be not only upright, but just. Into
Justice enters loving Me, praising Me, glorifying Me, thanking Me, blessing Me,
repairing Me, adoring Me, not only for oneself, but for all other
creatures. These are rights of Justice which I demand from each creature,
and which are due to Me as Creator, and one who denies to Me even one of these
rights, can never be called just. Therefore, think about fulfilling your
duty of justice, for in Justice you will find the beginning, the means and the
end of sanctity.”
Vol. 4, March 27, 1902
So although we are right to fear his punitive Justice this is not his ideal. Like all his attributes Justice is governed by his Love and it's God's express Will to return his creatures to the original state in which he created them, Father and child. In this there is no fear but only games of love the one between the other.
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