Innocent Until Proven Guilty

It’s the best that man can do

After all he is not God,

Due process must take its course

Even after the news has gone abroad.

There may have been witnesses

To the particular crime

But the perpetrator is innocent

Until due process has had its time.

Of course there is the people’s court

Usually guilty is the verdict,

Guilty until proven otherwise

And to that they will always stick.

The truth of the matter is

A person is either innocent or guilty

And the court’s decision otherwise

Cannot change that reality.

There may be an explanation

For why the crime was done

But due process would determine

Whether or not that case is won.

Motive and intent plays a role

And there might be aggravation

So that a perpetrator’s plea might be

Guilty with explanation.

One might be exonerated

And might be allowed to go free

But the truth of the matter is

That person is still guilty.

Innocent until proven guilty

That is really not the truth

Since truth never needs to rest

On man’s evidence or his proof.

Reality establishes the truth

As it pertains to a particular event,

The truth is really what happened:

That is often the court’s intent.

A person is therefore innocent

If he or she did not commit the act

On the other hand if he or she did

Their guilt must be seen as a fact.

Due process is critically important

And this we must admit,

It’s the best that our courts can do

Before they convict or acquit.

With God it is totally different

He is an eyewitness to everything,

He knows the innocent and the guilty

Regardless of the evidence we bring.

Innocent until proven guilty

Can never ever arise with Him

For while legal justice deals with crime

God treats to the matter of sin.

We are all naked before Him

Guilty is the verdict from birth,

No differentiating between persons

That’s for all that live upon earth.

Oft the innocent is disadvantaged

In cases beyond their control

But with God this is not possible

He knows every lie that’s been told.

The guilty verdict upon our life

Has been taken care of by Christ,

He nailed our guilt upon the cross

When there his life he sacrificed.

His innocence is imputed to everyone

That has been born again,

“No longer guilty” is the verdict

To them that have called on his name.

Jesus has the power of attorney

To represent our case to God,

His plea of innocent has delivered us

From the guilty charge of the Fraud.

Satan, that wily old prosecutor

Calls for our incarceration

But Jesus Christ, Justice for the defense

Has accomplished our exoneration.

Innocent until proven guilty

That’s the best that man can do,

Innocent even though proven guilty

That’s what Christ did for me and for you.

Stewart Russell © July 2018