broken.

A while back I prayed that the Lord “break my heart for what breaks His.” Simple words of a recent trendy worship song that struck me – looking back I don’t think I knew what I was in for. In the time since I find myself time and time again completely heartbroken over the injustices in this world and the chosen ignorance of my American Christian peers.

Time and time again I find myself somehow trying to manage standing between these two worlds; keeping one foot in each world and rationalizing the need to do so. Tonight I sit back and find myself yet again completely heart-broken on all subjects regarding the injustices of this world and the complacency of the culture around me.

“What, therefore, is our task today?” Should I answer, “Faith, hope, and love?” That sounds beautiful. But I would say – courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature…we lack Holy rage. The recklessness which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity; the ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth. A Holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God’s earth and the destruction of God’s people. To rage when little children must die of hunger, while the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and the madness of militaries. To rage against the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace. To rage against COMPLACENCY. To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the kingdom of God.”
-Father Kaj Munk, 1944