Wrath is our self-inflicted wounds. Sin blinds us, separates us and gives us false illusions about the importance of self. Justice then turns into winners and losers, us and them, comparison and blame games. But God's wrath is not aimed at you. It is redemption aimed at our sinfulness. When we fail to love our neighbor, it leads to injustice. The church unfortunately is often more concerned about how kids behave in church buildings than they do about those same kids misbehaving in the world.
People are so negative looking at all the social problems among the younger generation. Can we see with eyes of faith that the young meth addict may be the next Billy Graham. Who would have ever known that a terrorist by the name of Saul would become the great apostle to the Gentiles? Who would have known a slave trader like John Newton would become a hymn-writing Christian? Who would have known that an atheist Cambridge professor by the name of C. S. Lewis would become one of the great intellectual defenders of the Christian faith? Who would have known?
The church can no longer avoid justice issues or acts like injustice only deals with personal sin without resisting the very environment and structured evil that perpetuates so much injustice today. It is easy to write a check to end human trafficking but we lack concern for how we demand cheap affordable clothing and so many of our technology toys that exploits workers in other countries. We can say we are against global terrorism but still demand our need for cheap gas from middle east countries that often pays terrorists to do the evil things they do. We can say we want to see world hunger and poverty end and continue to support large corporations that exploit the poor in other nations. The law of God's economics is for life, not death. What are we teaching our kids when in comes to God's wrath and justice and the economics of life?
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