Divine Justice

My father once told me a story which stayed with me. It is not for the faint-hearted. He had a friend at school who would catch frogs, then cruelly hold their mouths over a tap until they burst. But his friend had barely reached adulthood, when he crashed an aeroplane in the Humber, and drowned. OBSERVATION: One speaks of divine justice, or poetic justice. Whatever one may think of it, one finds it often in the Bible. A well known example: Judah proposed that Joseph should be sold into slavery. Then Judah was effectively forced to offer himself as a slave. That, however, is a redemptive story, while other Bible stories are not. Does God work the same way today? We surely have to say yes.