80/20 Split
21 June 2017 @ 17:19
In this fiasco that has become American politics I've heard this discussion about fair trade that benefits us as Americans. 'Others need to pay their fair share' I have heard shouted from the lectern. I hear talk of being a Christian nation and I have tried to put this all into perspective. I have always felt that being a Christian is to resemble the one I follow. I have chosen to follow Jesus and the Jesus I follow is one who identified with the poor and the oppressed; the outcasts. I have come to know my Savior as the One who paid it all because I was unable and, yes, even unwilling to live in the way that I knew I should live. And showing unconditional love Jesus simply loves me as I am and not as I should be. I can never pay my fair share and yet God's love for me never diminishes. Could our problem be that, although we as Americans use 80% of the world's goods while 80% of the world is left with the other 20%, we have never had the ability to simply be thankful for what we have? How do evangelicals cheer for a policy that will make the marginalized and oppressed pay when we profess to follow a savior who says I come to you in your poverty but fear not for I have paid it all. This is something a pagan nation would cheer for.