Have no motivation other than to know your Father in Heaven. As we increase our faith in God’s power to give rest unto our souls by forgiving our sins, redeeming imperfect relationships, healing the spiritual wounds that stifle growth, and strengthening and enabling us to develop the attributes of Go, we will more deeply appreciate the justice. Justice consists in treating equals equally and unequals unequally but in proportion to their relevant differences. This involves, first, the idea of impartiality; the honest judge considers only the features of the case that are relevant in law. Justice is no respecter of persons; wealth or status will influence judgment only if it makes a difference in law. Impartiality implies a kind of equality—not that all cases should be treated alike but the onus rests on whoever would treat them differently to distinguish them in relevant ways. It is not for a judge to decide the respect in which people are equal but to decide whether the respects in which they are unequal are relevant to the issues in the case. That is what is really meant by the right to equal consideration—to be treated alike unless relevant differences have been proved. During the coming weeks, find the time to review your life’s goals and your planes, and make sure they align with our Heavenly Father’s great plan for our happiness. If one needs to repent or change, then consider doing so now. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Justice is one of the most basic and potentially important social psychological areas of inquiry. Take the time to prayerfully think about what adjustments are needed in order to one keep focused on God’s glory. People care not only about the content of decisions; they also care about how the decisions are made. Much of psychological science and knowledge is significantly relevant to social justice. The goal is to decrease human suffering and to promote human vales of equality and fairness. A commitment to social justice has evolved as a more important value in the last few decades for psychology. An important goal is that we continue to find ways to agree or disagree in respectful manner regardless of where each of us stands on an issue. A number of studies showed that people will remain attached to their groups and satisfied with the authority figures as long as they think the authorities have followed fair procedures, even when they authorities have rendered a decision that adversely affects them. Research indicates that documented procedures communicate important information about social worth and value to involved parties. People need to feel they are valued and respected members of the group, and they need to take pride in their group membership. A just person is an individual in the right place, doing one’s best and giving the equivalent of what one has received. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Justice considered as reciprocity is often held to require returning evil for evil as much as good for good (lex talionis). In this case punishment would be paying back what is due. However, if law can be too rigid to do justice, does this not imply some extralegal canons of justice, by which perhaps the rules of law themselves might be assessed? There are many people who seem to rely solely on the Lord’s mercy rather than on accomplishing their own repentance. The Lord may temper justice with mercy, but he will never supplant it. Mercy can never replace justice. God is merciful, but he is also just. “God is not mocked: for whatsoever a person does to others, one shall also reap the consequences,” reports Galatians 6.7. That is an eternal aspect of justice that has been declared by divine law. Justice is an unchanging law that brings consequences for actions. Because of the law of justice, one receives blessings when one obeys God’s commandments. The law of justice also demands that a penalty be paid for every sin a person commits. It requires that no unclean thing be permitted to dwell with God. Justice is preeminently a matter of significance for everyone, no matter what stage in the life-cycle, social circumstances or nationality. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

Justice assures personal and communal security, and is manifest in the way countries deal with crime, civil conflict and social strife within their borders or by agreement beyond. Justice is the maintenance of legal, social, or moral principles by the exercise o authority or power. The concept has a foundation at the core of moral philosophy and jurisprudence, and underpins the law that every community develops to fulfills their obligations and objectives. However, constitution such as courts and legal systems which start off sometimes with high and romantic origins, intents and aspirations, can, with passing of time, if we are not constantly alert and on guard, become disfigured, unreconisable and untrue to which benignant intentions which brought them into being. The of justice is to personalize the behaviour by making offenders more responsive to the human effects of their crimes. It also gives victim a role in the judicial procedure beyond laying the initial complaint and obliged judges to apply a remedial function on the court in helping to change the lives of offenders for the better. Justice and mercy are attributes of God They are also eternal principles. The Justice of God is a principle so fundamental that without it, God would cease to be God. On one hand, justice rewards righteousness. On the other hand, justice requires penalties as consequences of disobedience to the laws of God. “I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 1.31. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

The actions of a living being are regarded as having a special class of casual effects which determine one’s future spiritual condition, both in this life and in succeeding ones. These effects are known as the products of action. Good deeds lead to progress toward liberation.Each person will thus be judged according to his or her works. Although the degree of accountability varies according to the extent of each person’s knowledge and culpability. However, in the material World, ignorance of the law is not an excuse for not knowing the laws. We cannot reasonable expect people to respect our interests unless we are prepared to respect theirs. It would be generally agreed that doing justice means treating equals equally and unequals according to their relevant inequalities. The Christian lives before God by faith alone. One’s awareness of God is always an awareness of one’s own infinite distance from God. Closure forms when one is in some way incomplete and through spiritual development becomes complete—it is like a circle with a small arch missing and then becomes a full circle. Humans are the supreme unification of Reason and Nature, for the possess the highest sort of mind joined to the highest sort of body. The individual souls that make up humanity are eternal, uncreated, immortal. Their number can neither be increased nor diminished. Humanity is thus complete at every moment. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

When people should strive for is the imitation of the divine life in their own inner lives and in their social organizations. God is good, and people should participate in this goodness. The inner union with God (Gottesinnigkeit), or fervor for the divine, is the foundation of ethics, and ethics is the heart of religion. However, individuals cannot achieve the moral life alone, since they are what they are only as parts of the whole. The community and its various institutions are thus indispensable. Ideally, the community is governed by Right, which is the organic whole of all of the internal and external conditions necessary for the completion of life that are dependent on freedom. This supernational law is grounded in the nature of the divine; it expresses the right of Humanity, not simply the right of the individual human beings. The rights of the individuals, groups, and nations can be recognized, but only as subordinate to the right of Humanity as a while. Humanity is divided into a series of social organisms. Human beings are inhabitants in many cosmic systems. These human beings are subdivided into nations, races, communities, families, and so forth. There is an aesthetic community, a scientific community, a religious community, and a moral community. Each community has rights, although the right of Humanity takes precedence. Though God contains the World, he is nevertheless other than and superior to it. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6