In Christ we learn of God's justice

"In the penalty inflicted on Christ for sin, God's justice is far more gloriously revealed than in any other way. To see a world made good and beautiful, wrapped up in wrath and curses, clothed with thorns and briers, made subject to vanity and in bondage to corruption; to hear it groan in pain under that burden; to consider legions of angels, the most glorious and immortal creatures, cast down into hell, bound with chains of darkness and kept for a more dreadful judgment, and that for one sin; to see the oceans of blood spilt on account of sin will give some insight into God's justice and righteousness. But what is all this to that which we see with the spiritual eye in the Lord Christ? All these examples of God's justice are but worms and of no value compared to God's justice in Christ.

To see Christ, the wisdom and power of God, always beloved of the Father, fear and tremble, bow and sweat, pray and die; to see him lifted up on the cross, the earth trembling beneath him as if unable to bear his weight; to see the heavens darkened over him as if shut against his cry and himself hanging between both as if refused by each; and to see that all this is because of our sins is to see clearly the holy justice and wrath of God against sin. Supremely in Christ do we learn this great truth that God hates sin and judges it with a dreadful and fearful judgment."

John Owen, Communion with God, pg. 82-82

What a thought! Only in Christ do we really understand the righteous and just judgment of God against sin. Scripture is filled with examples of God's justice against rebellious sinners, but those examples are just glimpses. In Jesus on the cross, we get a complete picture of God's just wrath against sin. Praise God! He bore the fullness of God's wrath in place of all those who would ever trust in Him. It reminds me of the words of one of our family's favorite hymns.

And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain—
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Amazing Love indeed!