When does justice come? Some of us put it off expecting justice to come only when all things are made new. (Isa 66:22) Others of us demand justice and get mad at anyone who stands in the way of justice because "not to speak is to speak and not to act is to act." Popular opinion puts forth a false choice between two sides of Christian thinking: speak out against injustice versus let God handle it. Isaiah 58 helps us to understand what God expects from us. The people in Isaiah 58 have declared ritual days of fasting. They say that they are motivated by closeness with God. Yet while they are fasting, they are still having fun while their workers work hard. They look like they care about what God cares about, but they continue to keep others down and diminish their freedom. They fight amongst themselves. God is not pleased, because they are more concerned with pleasing themselves through fasting than with pleasing Him. A group not mentioned in Isaiah are people who are angry an...