Occupy For the Love Of Money

This is not to undermine the current political and social pursuit of economic justice that is taking place today, literally today.

But in pondering everything that is happening with these occupy movements, it’s difficult for me to move past the notion that this mess of an Occupy movement - tensions between the people and the powerful - escalating to use of violence, reflects to me nothing more than the plight of a people who love Money. But we cannot love both God and Money. This leads me to a sad realization that we are a people who do not love God.

I mean, this could be called obvious, but the picture of brokenness laid before us is so raw. We are moved to occupy, occupy moves us to emotion, emotion leads to physical force (even with the use of weapons), and there is chaos. There is a spirit of rebellion and humanism, as my roommate noted last night.

Brothers and sisters, let’s even re-examine our motivations and places in which we find security. Could we at any moment, leave everything that secures us financially and follow him? If not, we’re caught under Money’s fetters like those outwardly showing it.

I don’t even know what concrete things to pray for. What I do know is that I need to beg God for his mercy, his compassion over a bunch of insecure and broken people. We are so passionate for the small-scale aspects of an 80-year life on this earth, and this passion reveals a broken humanity in the form of rebellion, malicious subordination, and just outright hate.

His grace is all-encompassing, but He is Holy. God is Holy, but his compassion is relentless over us. Church, let’s actually intercede. I, a lazy uncommitted young woman, am becoming more and more convicted to come humbly and ask for mercy. His righteous anger, and even sadness over us is just. 

And when that long-predicted earthquake comes, and the passion for the right to a public education is drowned beneath piles of ashes and mourning at the loss of life, let’s pray for a renewed awareness of our sin, that the message of the Cross and his amazing grace, be life to us in this dark world.

Father, have mercy. We’re clinging to you.

Tuesday Nov 11 @ 03:09pm
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  1. effitbesteve said: wow, thats a great perspective.
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