The world of Today and Reality

A second consideration which should greatly move our hearts to a fear of the Lord is the profundity of His judgments. So the Psalmist says: Thy justice is as the mountains of God and Thy judgments are a great deep(Ps. 35:7). This is a much more moving consideration than that of God's justice, which serves principally to make evil men fear, for the consideration of the profundity of God's judgments is profitable both for the good and the evil alike. As the wise man says: "Who knows if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?"(Eccles. 3:21). That is to say, who knows whether all the just will be saved or all the sinners condemned, for many times the just man falls from his justice and the sinner is converted by penance. Since the attributes and properties of God are known through His works, it will be well to consider some of His judgments, especially those which we read in Sacred Scripture, in order to show wit