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People caught up in the love of God not only began to give thanks for their daily bread, but daily offered to God whatever they had that might speak that gracious love to others. What is far more dangerous than any plan of shared wealth or fair distribution of goods and services is a God who dares impose on us divine love. Such love will not play fair. In the moment we think something
is ours, or our people’s, that same God will demand we sell it, give it away, or offer more of it in order to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, or shelter the homeless, using it to create the bonds of shared life. This will be the new direction born of this moment. The salvation of Israel is sure and now intensified through the Spirit, who tightens God’s claim on them by announcing a new order of things that will not pass away.
infirmity
time to see with the eyes of Jesus.
Disciples are watched, especially by those in need. Disciples must be seen, especially by those in need. Even more fantastic, disciples must call attention to themselves, not as an act of religious hubris, but as the absolute mandate of a witness.
How many intellectuals, activists, scientists, or sages have found themselves precisely in this position wishing for a more enlightened multitude (a smarter crowd) that would always will and do the common good? Yet such seers are tormented by the knowledge that the many have yielded themselves agents of death and may do so again. Peter and John carry the memory of a crowd that called for Jesus’ death.
agonizing knowledge with its temptation toward self-indulging intellectual narcissism.
