Had to read it twice... Anyone who cares about character must care about social conditions, for every unfair economic situation, every social evil left to run its course means ruin to character. And the God of the Bible, because he cares supremely for personal life at its best, is zealously in earnest about social justice, his prophets blazed with indignation at all inequity, and his Son made the coming kingdom, when Gods will would be done on earth, the center of his message. To fellowship with this earnest purpose of God we are all summoned;God believes in the glorious possibilities of life on earth; he is counting on us to put away the sins that hold the kingdom back and to fight the abuses that crush character in men. To believe in God, therefore- the God who is fighting his way with his children up through ignorance, brutality, and selfishness to a new heaven and new earth, the home of righteousness- is no weakly comfortable blessing. It means joining a moral war; it means devotion, sacrifice; its spirit is the Cross and its motive an undiscourageable faith. And our underlying assurance that this war for a better world can be won is not simply our belief that it can be done, but or faith that God is, and that he believes that it can be done. When we pray we say, your kingdom come, and we are full of hope about the long, sacrificial struggle, for the purpose behind and through it all is first of all Gods. Our earnestness is but an echo of his. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:04:02 +0000
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