Thoughts & opinion from the southampton vineyard team
jubilee schmubilee
by Matt Hyam on 24th November, 2008
Jubilee. How’s it going to work? Is it going to work? Is it just going to be a bit of tokenism to keep us from feeling guilty for a year and we can live on the memories for a few more years.
Honestly? I really do not know!
Anyone who saw the news last week could not have missed the stuff about baby P. How can anyone do that to a 17-month old child? How can a human being be capable of such incredible evil? How can we live in a world where things like this can happen? My youngest son is 17-months old. I have been holding him that much tighter, kissing him that much more often and appreciating all his crazy little “characteristics” so much more, for the last week or so. How can anyone be capable of that? How could it happen?
I cannot begin to comprehend what kind of person is capable of this. Or what kind of life could shape a person to be capable of this. There is a saying, “hurt people hurt people”. How much hurt makes someone do that?!
The only thing that I do know is that our God has called us to be salt and light. He has sent us to the broken-hearted; to heal the sick; to set the captives free.
We just cannot do nothing.
We just cannot sit in meetings singing “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs and do nothing.
We have to do something.
We have to.
We have to go to the broken-hearted and let God heal them.
That broken-hearted person who gets healed may just be the one who was going to turn into the person who tortures to death a 17-month-old child.
So, you see, Jubilee has to work. It just has to. Otherwise what is the point? What are we doing?
There’s a line from a Bruce Cockburn song, that U2 nicked – “I’m gonna kick the darkness til it bleeds daylight!”
Underneath everything; that is what jubilee is really about.