Mosiah 22-23

(September 7, 2013)
I think our lives would be far better if we would only accept one simple premise – justice is not a mortal concept, Justice is an eternal concept.  What’s more, while Justice must claim her own, it is Mercy that should be our business.

Look no further than the interactions of Alma and Amulon.  By any objective view of justice, Alma and his people should have lived in peace and harmony and Amulon should have had a miserable mortality.  But this is not what happened.  Amulon was put in a position of power over Alma, and was able to torment him, while Alma was powerless to protect the people who looked to him for guidance.

In a mortal view, that is nothing but unfair.  But in an eternal view, it is obvious that Alma was the more fortunate one in this whole experience.  Although he suffered at Amulon’s hands, Amulon damaged himself far more than he damaged Alma.  In fact, all of Amulon’s efforts to hurt Alma and his people just drew them closer to the Lord.  They were blessed, despite Amulon’s efforts to curse them.  This is Justice – a quality infrequently found in mortality but certain in the eternities.