Applause. We petition God for forgiveness and mercy. We do not petition God for justice.
Justice! God forbid. God is just for forgive us in the sense of being righteous, on Christ’s expense and on His credit, “that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” (Rm. 3:26)
God looks at what I’ve done and says that will send you to Hell-fire. He looks at what His Son did and says that He send you to glory, by faith in His blood, but a God-given faith out of a poor and contrite heart that characteristically works obedience in heart and life, thanks be to God though i need to be more yielded.