This week: God as subverting violence. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. Violence will try to win the day. Unfortunately, it often does. In some shape, violence does the job of controlling how the world spins and how our lives so often go along with that spinning. God as subverting violence stands in the way of that spinning and becomes the power of life available in the shape of the victim. God as subverting violence is when the image of God becomes the crushed one who does not go along with the violence or the mob or the pressure to keep things just as they are. In this way, we are not denied the result of violence that take place simply to have its way for the victim of a violent system is one who has been violated by the powers of violence. God as subverting violence stands up with the victims and resists any attempt for the powers of the day to blame or diminish or destroy those people who have been cast in a manner less than those in power. God as subverting violence interrupts the 'party' of violence the world likes to whip up and for that, this God and all who follow will face consequences. Yes, death - but more importantly and more frustrating to the powers of death - a fullness of life that death cannot bring about ever. O God of love and new life, make us instruments of your acts of subversion and new life - instruments of peace, forgiveness, mercy, and justice. Amen. |
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