God’s vision is a world filled with the children of God period

Monday January 2nd, Isaiah 61: 11 The LORD will bring about justice and praise in every nation on earth, like flowers blooming in a garden. First let us understand that justice is not another name for things done our way. Justice is a two edged sword and cuts and blesses both ways. We still live in a world of nations, parties, tribes, haves and have not’s. God’s vision is a world filled with the children of God period, where the variations are blessings and the differences are our chosen paths. Short of living in this God world where we recognize others as sisters and brothers in Christ, we live in a world of injustice. True justice would mean that we would have less so that others could have more, quite the opposite of the current trend. True justice would not focus on tax breaks for the wealthiest among us while cutting programs that benefit the least of these. God’s justice means caring for all of God’s creation, not just our backyard. In God’s just world people would not celebrate the birth of Christ by shoplifting $1.8 billion in merchandise. We have a little work to do.