Indignation for Injustice
"In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who can describe his generation? For His life is taken away from the earth.'"(Acts 8:33)
July 2
John Adams wrote these words concerning the Boston Massacre, “On that night American independence was laid.” Though many other important decisive battles were fought in the American Revolutionary war, Adams states, “there was no more important event in American history than the battle of King Street on March 5th 1770.”1 Five men were shot and killed by British soldiers that were being harassed by a mob. Tensions had grown immense between the soldiers and the local people, and it was only a matter of time until it boiled over into violence. Unjust death has the power to insight a warrior spirit in our hearts like nothing else can. At times injustice wields a heavy gavel that the human heart is compelled to make right. No time in history was more injustice present than in the false trial and undeserved flogging and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. His followers did not raise up armies to seek vengeance on those responsible because they had come to understand the nature of our warfare is spiritual and not carnal. Jesus faced Pilate saying, “Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?" (Matthew 26:53) Jesus has the power and authority to conquer and destroy any opposition. His mission was not to destroy His enemies, but to offer them forgiveness and reconciliation. His unjust innocent death lit a fuse of revolution that would bring His people back to God, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” (1 Peter 3:18) The innocence of Christ suffering in our place toppled the scales of justice offering us grace beyond our comprehension. The Gospel has revealed the immensity of the love of God for us that we can never possibly match in ascribing worth. Christ’s unjust death is the sure foundation of a new everlasting Kingdom. Our hearts respond to the massacre of Christ in our place by fighting to honor our King whose death has inaugurated this new Kingdom. The love of God that has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit has lit a fire of indignation towards the lies of oppression inspiring us to resist the dominion of tyranny.
On this day, the Boston Massacre lights the fuse of revolution | Constitution Center