Pillars of Fire In My Soul

assures those under the covenant the most important thing every human being wants to be assured of: “... I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more” (see Epistle to the Hebrews 3: 1-6; 4: 14; 5: 10; and Chapters 7-10). 11. It should be understood that our Lord is using the word justice here in the meaning that people most commonly give to that word, and which theologians define more precisely as “vindictive” justice, that is, justice that demands punishment, or reparation, for wrongdoing. This form of divine justice will be experienced only by those who will persist, even in the last moment of their earthly life, in a conscious and firm decision not to accept God’s merciful love. St. Paul assures us that there is in the Scriptures another, more basic, idea of “justice” — understood as an essential characteristic of God — which he defines as God’s faithfulness to His promises , which He made to all who will believe in Him and trust in Him (see Rm 1: 17). This positive concept of justice is simply another face of mercy. It is, therefore, not something to be dreaded. 12. See Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical, “Dives in Misericordia” — “conversion to God always consists in discovering His Mercy, that is, in discovering that love which is patient and kind as only the Creator and Father can be; the love to which the ‘God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ’ is faith- ful to the uttermost consequences of the history of His covenant with man: even to the cross and to the death and resurrection of the Son. Conversion to God is always the fruit of the ‘rediscov- ering’ of this Father who is rich in mercy” (VII, 13, par.6). 13. In some earlier pieces of literature dealing with the Message of The Divine Mercy and with the devotion connected with it, there is a particular promise mentioned, alleged to have been attached by Our Lord to the Image of The Divine Mercy, namely: Divine Mercy … We Trust in You! 71