How Do We Respond?

Below is a video called "Store" from the Nooma series by Rob Bell. I have been going through this series with my weekly bible study group and always enjoy the topics he speaks about.



I would first like to point out that the cart in the video, with the loose wheel, is mine. I always manage to grab that cart whenever I go shopping. It doesn't matter if I try to fool that cart by grabbing one in the middle of the row...it finds me. But I must admit that I am happy to see that cart attach itself to another unsuspecting shopper!

Okay, on to the subject of Anger....

I love that Rob spoke about Jesus being angry, not because he didn't get his way, but because of injustice.

What is injustice?

Contrary to some peoples' belief, it is not getting cut off while driving down the road. It is not having to wait in a line that has more than four people in it; and it is not having to eat our dinner in a restaurant with someone's child screaming in the background. While all of these things can be frustrating at times, this is not injustice. This does not even come close to injustice. So maybe instead of getting angry at the things that don't matter, let's get angry at the things that do matter.

Like this...

200,000 children die each week from starvation and other poverty related illnesses, totaling nearly 10 millions deaths per year.

It is estimated that up to 1 million children, some as young as 3 years old, are sold into child sex slavery every year. Every year.

If that makes you angry, do something about it. Just like Jesus, we can use our anger to motivate us to do something good, to make a change for those who are experiencing the tightest grips of injustice. We need to be Jesus' hands and feet. We need to be that change.

"Sometimes I'd like to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world when He could do something about it....but I'm afraid God might ask me the same question." Anonymous