Friday!

Proverbs!

Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter.

Proverbs 24:11 CSB

Who is it that needs rescuing? 

Is this about people going to war? 

About someone on death row?

Is it about spiritual death?

Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter.

If you say, 

"But we didn't know about this", won't he who weighs hearts consider it?

Won't he who protects your life know? 

Won't he repay a person according to his work?

Proverbs 24:11-12 CSB

This proverb is about injustice. 

It's about someone in my orbit, my community, my whanau, my church, who is being mistreated, abused, hurt, and I'm looking away. 

I'm making excuses. 

I don't want to see. 

This is an OG (or is it just OT) version of the Good Samaritan story in Luke 10 where 2 people looked away and walked on by, where their fear, their stuff, their religion, was more important than another person's suffering. 

"But we didn't know about this".

I didn't know, I didn't see, because I wanted to walk by on the other side of the road. 

This proverb pokes at my heart. 

At Easter in particular we celebrate Jesus not walking by but entering in to deal with injustice, to bring healing, and hope, and life. May we simply follow Him. 

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