Healthy inter-personal relationship is nurtured by impartiality.
Conscious of it or not, everyone of us views situations and things with some bias.
If we are fair and impartial, we gain trust from the people we relate with. When
we are trustworthy, it will promote trust that lead to better interaction. As God’s
children and people of His Kingdom, the LORD expects us to be impartial like Him.
There are many verses in the Bible which encourage us to be impartial. Remember
James 2:1 instructs us this way: “My brethren, do not hold your
faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favouritism.” We need to exercise
impartiality, especially when we are called upon to mediate a misunderstanding.
Proverbs 24:23-26 reiterate this same principle. This is a trait that people
with godly wisdom will exercise.
Proverbs 24:23-26 make it explicitly clear that people
who administer justice must be impartial. We must say the right thing honestly so
that a wrong can be corrected and a right can be vindicated. When we unfairly
exonerate a guilty person and unjustly adjudicate a person to be guilty when he
is not, we have shown partiality. Miscarriage of any justice will always lead
to insecurity. When a leader show impartiality and reprove the guilty, it will
create a conducive condition for the culpable person to be changed. If we do
not deal with the guilty person rightly, we starve him or her of the
opportunity to be transformed. Verse 25 promises blessing to one who shows
fairness and impartiality. Godly wisdom enables us to be impartial and helps us
to be honest, diplomatic and tactfully frank. And when we lean on God to help
mediate a situation justly, our words are likened to a kiss, a biblical gesture
of friendship.
Remember God expects us to speak words of truth and not
words of compromise. Speaking the truth is certainly better than white washing
a wrong. Words of make believe only let the guilty person go away thinking he
has done nothing wrong. Be fair and impartial in life’s dealing!
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