Jubilee
This Sunday I went to a church I had not been to before – an Anglican church running a slightly more contemporary mid morning service. The people were friendly and I was greeted warmly by several people who recognised a new face . As lovely as the service was, I couldn’t help being struck by a sense of Irony as a largely Pakeha church sang the song “Did You Hear the Mountains Tremble.”
Those words again; “…a time of Jubilee is coming…”
Jubilee was the time when all land was returned to its original owner. A system ensuring that power and wealth did not gradually pool upwards leaving people stuck in systemic poverty with little hope of climbing out. A lease hold economic market rather than a private ownership economic market. I realise a direct parallel is not applicable, yet there is surely cause for reflection – “Lord search us and know us.”
Back to the song; “…a mighty river through our nation.” A typical western symbol of justice is a blindfold lady holding balanced scales. Blindfolded, objective, dispassionate; when the balance is even, that is justice. A scriptural symbol is of a mighty flowing river, passionate, often in favour of the marginalised and dispossessed, seeking a return to relationship and wholeness whatever that might take.
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