Waiting for Fireworks (Pastor Vann Trapp)

Poetic justice. For the most part, we love the concept of it. Whether it is the person caught by the police as they drive down the shoulder to avoid the stopped traffic, or the bully who picks on the wrong person and gets “what’s coming to them.” There is an equation of justice in our heads that we think is what keeps the universe in balance. That’s what Jonah thought about Nineveh. He believed if God could just know how unsettled he was about the “imbalance” of God’s mercy, God would come around and set the equation right again. So, he sat on the outskirts of the city to watch as God gave them what was coming to them, like we sometimes do. But is poetic justice really God’s equation, or just an example of our bad math?