John 14
Jesus the
Way to the Father
14‘Do not
let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God,
believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house there are many
dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare
a place for you? 3And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to
myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
Last week there was a conference on the use of rape as a weapon of war and the need to
recognise this evil as a war crime. Surely rape must be a war crime! I was
troubled by those brave victims who told their story of abuse and violence and
their lasting troubled hearts. Trouble
and fear are the stuff, the lasting legacy of the war lords of this world;
those who terrorise through bombs and bullying.
The trouble of the silenced suffering of the community raped with crime,
the country raped with war and the women raped as a weapon of war; must trouble
all of us to take action. Jesus promises the troubled, the silenced sufferer
that His kingdom is being prepared for them by Himself. Jesus is taking steps to end the age of the
war crime and the weapons of war. Jesus promised that He was acting through the
preferential option for the troubled; for those the world forgets and leaves to
their troubles. The Kingdom of God is
promised to those who are troubled! Are we troubled by the violence of this
world? If we believe that we are part of
His Kingdom here and now then we must be one with the troubled and we should
take action as Jesus does, we must take the preferential action in favour of
those who suffer the degradation of being the objects of abuse of those who
pursue power through terror, violence and war in any form. Let us make peace, with God, ourselves, our
communities, our churches. Let us advocate for the troubled locally through our
own lives and globally by pursuing peace-making and the destruction of all
weapons of war. See the links below.
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