God's swift judgement

When something bad happens to us, especially when we are wronged by someone or victimised by someone, we often desire for the other person to pay for his wrong doings in terms of punishment from either the government or God. We simply do not find any comfort in seeing the wrong doer get away with his iniquity. Even if our system fails to bring justice to the matter, we place hope in the justice of the Lord and desire a swift judgement. But the way we see and interpret the world, is not the way how the Lord sees it. Our hearts are afflicted, vision is constrained and knowledge is limited, but not of the Lord. No doubt with such limitations we will only be having but biased and wrong interpretations. So even if from our perspective we may expect a swift judgement from the Lord to follow, it simply may not happen. For the Lord may have other plans for the person that we simply do not know. There is no doubt that the Lord will uphold justice, but that’s not according to our timing, but His own. History has seen many bad persons turning good in due course time. Take an example of sage Valmiki. What was he initially? A thief and robber who must have wronged and killed many people. No doubt people must have cursed him and wanted him to pay for his wrong doings. But the Lord had other plans for him.  Had the swift judgement of the Lord been cast upon him, we would not be having the Ramayana today. So in everything we must trust the Lord’s judgement instead of trying to exert the will of our own. For His ways and plans are far better than the plans and ways of us.