rights

eric said steph said its the rights of the migrants to fight for more money. frankly, i dont quite care if they shld fight or settle for what they have. steph probably has her own reasons ... yet, my concern is that while we teach them to fight for rights against the government, are we like the hypocrites ... we set up a whole set of rules of do's and dont's just because someone got molested and this is our way of dealing with their deviant behaviour...

is it really our right to punish them? isnt it their right to experience God's grace and mercy ... isnt it their right to be part of my christian community when i see my brother fall, rather than expose him i clothe him with love and say to the rest - throw the first stone only if you have no sin

i dont understand how and why we pity the people outside - is it false compassion? i dont pity them; i pity us! i pity us that we find it ok that such abuses go on and we choose to turn our eyes away ... is it really our right to shame them? the whole community was birthed simply to show them Jesus as the righteous saviour ...

sure molesting someone is wrong - but looking at a lady lustfully is also wrong! sure fighting and stealing is wrong - but teaching them wrong values ie money is the way to be compensated is also wrong cos we have now made money our god - and the Lord says that the love of money is the root of all evil ... the Lord says that greed is idolatry

do we have rights? my right now i guess is that i can speak out for the poor and the oppressed - so to you Jesus i say ... the migrants are not the poor and the oppressed but we are. our spirits are so poor and deceived that we cant see right from wrong anymore. we condone oppression and call it rules. we speak out for the poor through our own human wisdom and call it love. so in Your kindness, discipline us. in Your kindness show us the truth

i desire truth in my inward parts; i desire a place where there is a heart. i desire grace to cover law.

your confused daughter