The White Horse
Enjoy this message from Pastor Tyler Schoenberger called "The White Horse" on Sunday, September 20, 2026 at Reach Church in Bear, Delaware!
Injustice is one of the most painful realities of human life. Corrupt courts, the innocent condemned, the guilty set free. The book of Ecclesiastes wrestles honestly with this darkness, and the writer reaches a bleak conclusion: without any hope of divine justice, life is meaningless and it would be better to have never been born at all. But the very fact that we recognize injustice reveals something profound. We cannot call something crooked unless we have a sense of what straight looks like. That moral standard does not come from within us. It is rooted in the character of God, who is the foundation of all righteousness and justice.
Christians are called to respond to injustice, not ignore it. Jesus Himself moved toward the hurting, the despised, and the outcast, and His Spirit in us moves us in the same direction. But there are two errors to avoid. The first is hopeless passivity, the belief that injustice is too big to matter and we should simply enjoy life and look away. The second is an overconfident belief that the right systems, leaders, or policies can eliminate injustice entirely. The gospel holds these in tension through the concept of the already but not yet. The kingdom of God has come through Jesus, sin and death are already defeated, and yet the fullness of that kingdom has not arrived. We can make a difference and we are called to try, but only Jesus can make all things right.
The writer of Ecclesiastes asked who would comfort the oppressed. The answer comes centuries later in the book of Revelation, where John sees heaven opened and a rider on a white horse called Faithful and True, coming in righteousness to judge and make war against evil. Every injustice done under the sun will be answered. The wicked will not prosper forever. The innocent will not suffer forever. For those who are in Christ, this is not a moment of fear but of celebration. We live now as people anchored in that hope, letting our hearts break over what breaks the heart of God, and taking whatever steps we can to reflect His justice and care for the vulnerable while we wait for the King to finish what He has already begun.