It Is What It Is

An attitude Mister Bill and I have learned to embrace is "it is what it is." While they are most surely things we can change, there are many we cannot. One who is prudent is careful and wise in how he handles practical matters of life. That person will be morally guided by several things, one of which is "justice," something [we all will agree] is greatly lacking in our world today. Well, the Hebrew word "justice" means "rightness or righteousness," and this is where the justice-train has left the track! The lie embraced by the average man is that right is relative. Since "relative" comes in many shapes-forms-flavors-colors, it's no wonder rightness (justice) is scare-to-none. It is God Who separates light from darkness, makes the sun to come up and go down, Who runs His universe ... and it is He Who declares what is right and what is wrong. Man can't even comprehend what is altogether right: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death." (Proverbs 14:12). In order for justice to "roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24), right cannot be relative; it must be fixed-settled-unwavering-absolute. We cannot wisely apply justice in our lives apart from God Who IS the same "yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). So, yes, right "is what it is" and wrong "is what it is" according to He Who IS.