You may be familiar with the expression ‘just deserts’, as in I hope he/she gets their ‘just deserts.’ Many of you have heard of it, but for those who haven’t although it is pronounced like dessert (2 s’s) it has nothing to do with the food we eat, which some may know of as pudding. To get your just deserts means to get a “deserved reward or punishment” (usually used in plural), “the quality or fact of meriting reward or punishment,” or “excellence, worth.” One of the earliest uses of it was in 1549.
I haue bene yonge and am nowe olde, yet the eies in myne heade:
Dyd never se the juste deserte, nor hys seede begge theyr breade.
— Robert Crowley, The Psalter if David, 1549
We may hear it in a more colloquial term such as ‘You get what you deserve’, or ‘What goes around comes around.’ It’s an age-old idea. Good people have good things happen. Bad people have bad things happen. The Gospel offers us a different view of life. Here the concept of grace comes into play and bad people often get the opposite of what they deserve – mercy, forgiveness and a new start. I wonder if you have ever experienced that grace? Would you like to?
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