11 Therefore
I will be your king the remainder of my days; nevertheless, let us appoint
judges, to judge this people according to our law; and we will newly arrange
the affairs of this people, for we will appoint wise men to be judges, that
will judge this people according to the commandments of God.
12 Now
it is better that a man should be judged of God than of man, for the judgments
of God are always just, but the judgments of man are not always just. (Mosiah
29:11-12)
I used to get confused by
v12, thinking that Mosiah was saying that the people would have to wait until
the afterlife to receive just judgment from God, since only men were rendering
judgment on earth and men couldn’t be trusted to judge justly. But recently I realized that Mosiah was
saying wise men could judge according to the commandments of God and that would
be as if they were being judged by God.
If a judge uses God’s commandments as the way to judge, he should be
able to render a judgment God would render.
How much I wish the laws of
God were the laws of our land!
They seem to be getting further apart. Yet we can look forward to a time when Christ will come, the
earth will be cleansed, and the laws of God will be reinstituted for society.
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