How soon we forget

Ephesians 2:12-17

         There is a great deal of talk recently about illegal alien children at our border. I find it horribly amusing and ironic that the far right and religious pro-life zealots, often one in the same, are dismissing the calls to take care of these children. I think any thoughts that we may have contributed to this crisis by deporting vicious gang members years ago (who now terrorize their own countries) and that these children are fleeing from hasn't gotten any traction in the media. Be that as it may what of our Biblical and moral human responsibilities to care for these children?

         Christ died to abolish the law that held us captive to words and hypocrisy . Christ died to unify us into one people , one human people. Where has that gotten us? How many religions and how many denominations of Christianity are there now? How soon we forget the lessons or have we really learned it in the first place.

         Recently there was a little dust up in a local church. It reads like a cheap novel with conspiracy, jealousy, lies, damn lies and political intrigue. I might say I'd expect it as SOP for the Roman church but this was not a Roman church. It's difficult to grasp that such stupidity and lack of integrity, faith and good hearts exists even within the church. But we are humans after all I suppose. Def not perfect.

         So often I suggest that we we all need to do is some serious if not brutal self assessments of ourselves. Certainly not of others, that's too easy. We excel at that. No, self assessment is what we need along with a humble heart and a contrite heart.  If the message of Jesus from 2000 years ago is to take root in society and if we do not want the problems of the past revisited in the present or future, we must look to into ourselves honestly.  And more than that we need to take the message of the Gospel seriously and without reservation, not like it's a smorgasbord.   

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near;