I''ve spent the past couple of weeks listening to Rick McKinley's series on Transformation. This was a series taken from Isaiah 61 and the transformation that God wants to bring in our lives. The later part of the verse talks about God's transformaed people rebuilding the ciy and how God loves justice. And as I was driving home from the grocery store this evening this concept finally clicked.
The simple fact that God wants people to go into the broken places of the world, of our communities, and bring the transformation he's done in us to these places. But we as a church don't go. We "don't belong" in the ghettos, in the broken places. And as this thought hit me as to why rebuilding and justice isn't taking place in our world it really made me mad.
Late summer/early fall I'm moving. My desire to be closer to the city (DC) and my limited funds have forced me to look inot areas where people I know ask me if I'm crazy. "Aren't you worried something bad will happen?" It makes me wonder what we're trusting God for. We'll send missionairies to third world countries and places of danger but we have a fear of going to the broken places in the world for fear that something bad might happen to us. It's hard to make a difference when we all live in nice houses in the country next to our neighbors from our church.
My desire is to be in the middle of what God is doing and I believe God is waiting to do something exciting and he wants to bring transformation and a rebuilding and justice to the broken places of this world. He just have to avail ourselves to go where he leads.
I'm working on a poem called (at the moment) "Her Deep Beauty"". It's about a friend of mine and what makes her such a joy to be around. That should be posted early this week.
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you have no idea how excited i am to hear about your discovery of God's love for justice! dude, we've gotta talk!
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