Jeremiah - Marc Chagall
Jeremiah gives voice to the cry and complaint of the un-numbered
and un-named throughout human history who led to the slaughter have looked to
God (or anyone who will listen) for help. But help does not always arrive in a
timely fashion as Jeremiah himself will find out when his story of lament and
complaint ends in obscurity. Despite all indications to the contrary we
believe justice will have its day and the cause of the righteous will be upheld
by the God who judges the heart and the mind. However, it may be that we who will have to pray forgiveness for things done and left undone, things said and left unsaid.
It may be that we who waited for God to act on behalf of those who suffer while
God waited for us to act will be judged as equally guilty. “It was the Lord who
made it known to me” means we are God’s agents of mercy and justice in a world
that devises evil schemes against the weak and powerless. Too often Christian
backs bristle at slights against the practice of our individual piety while the
plight of those literally “led to the slaughter” hardly registers a reaction. Granted,
the world is not willing to conform to the kingdom of God and indeed actively
works against the principles of God’s reign but when we are silent in the face
of suffering we acquiesce to the evil schemes that would cut off the word of
life from the land of the living.
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