The Day of Judgment

I was reflecting on John the Baptist's statement, "Look the Lamb of God!"

The Day of Judgment is a promise of hope for the upright. David and the Psalmists, the Prophets, too, longed for their deliverance and vindication by the hand of God before the Judgment seat. But, there is a problem…
Not one of us is righteous, not even one. David wrote that one, himself. None of us can even claim to understand what uprightness, in an objective sense, is. We are locked in our social constructs, blinded by our ego and Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs. Our hearts are crafty, and invent ways of doing evil. We certainly shall not be vindicated at the Day of Judgment, but declared guilty of small-mindedness, petty jealousies, and world wars.
But, God knows us in our context, which the Church Fathers have called “original sin”. God is merciful in the midst of our individual egos, seeking not to annihilate us into His being, but to recreate us in His own perfect state—an objectively upright existence. This is the other longing of the Bible’s poets and preachers, redemption, the coming of the Upright One who would suffer on behalf of all.
I do not claim to understand God’s justice. I do not grasp the Atonement. But, I recognize it as true. There is reconciliation through the Messiah, as each evil act and thought and word is put to rest with Jesus’ body. “It is finished,” and we need not learn war anymore!