On the Move har kommit!

Härom veckan skrev jag att jag beställt Bonos bok ”On the Move”. Idag kom den. Fantastiskt vacker. Texterna är utmanande för oss i väst, särskilt för oss som bekänner oss som kristna. Om fler gjorde vad Bono säger och gör, så skulle världen (i synnerhet Afrika) bli en bättre plats.

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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

”If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will become like midday and the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places” (Isaiah 58:9-11)

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty i mentioned more than 2100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of airtime, 2100 mentions. You know, the only time Christ is judgmental is on the subject of the poor. ”As you have done it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done int unto me” (Matthew 25:40). As I say, good news to the poor.”