Luke 11:29-31
When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here!
Harsh words
A wake up call
Borne of the frustration of dealing with folks
who constantly refused to get it
Harsh words
uttered in love
because sometimes love has to be challenging
Harsh words
that sought to jar folks
to see what lay hidden in plain sight
Harsh words
spoken to provoke folk into acting
on all the teaching they knew
summed up in
“love God and love neighbour”
Harsh words
that might be spoken
for our generation today
as we ignore what creation tells us
and continue to ravage the earth
as we witness and participate in
division and otherness
deeming some as less deserving than others
And as we blame everyone but ourselves
for our predicament today,
Harsh words
call us back from the abyss
from the mess and rhetoric
from the stone throwing and the name calling
Harsh words call us
to love God
and love our neighbour.
See something greater is here:
God dwells in our midst in love
Will we reflect or obscure that love today?
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