The Kingdom of God is about more than just my justice.
The expression of pride starts with anything that resembles self. So I’m more interested in my stuff, my family, my ethnicity, my nationality, my intellectual taste, my Christian background/denominational affiliation … my stuff. So something is not fair, if it affects my stuff.
One of the awkward things about the Kingdom of God, which I continue to learn about day by day, and what I was hinting at in the conundrum yesterday, was that justice is not just about my stuff. The commission on being peacemakers is that often to make it causes a fuss and makes things awkward for those comfortable with the status quo. It’s not so much the case of ‘if it ain’t broke, why fix it’, it is more ‘just cos it’s broke, why fix it?’ The concept of peace being about wholeness means that making peace already assumes something isn’t fixed – it’s not whole.
Now that brokenness is replete through creation and especially evident in human relationships. It doesn’t matter what political system, what mood among the people, there is always a story of human disaster which at the heart is because of human inability to hold peace above all else because we’re far too protective of our own stuff.
So does that make the task hopeless? Of course not, that’s why it’s God’s Kingdom. The prayer for it to come is about Him doing it His way, in His time with us being in the place to be the vehicles through which it comes, or at least the witnesses who herald its arrival. That timing though and that positioning is a delight to God, but not always to others. It is also about being interested in something more than just my own justice.
Just blogging.
That is all.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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