The
greatest healing effort in 2015 should be devoted to healing the
relationship between citizens and law. We are in such great conflict
with our own legal systems. We most especially need healing in the
relationship between the citizens and law enforcement. We need to come
together as a collective society, both nationally and globally, and come
to terms with the laws and legal systems we've created. Look at the
laws that are on the books: do they really serve the purpose to help
make our world more prosperous and protect against injustice?
Before any of this can happen, the individual must face the rules of their own personal living patterns. Do you do justice with yourself? Do you make rules for yourself and then break them? Is integrity a matter of slavishly following a decree, or does it take into account the justice of the circumstances of time and place?
When the citizens hate the laws and law enforcement, we throw fuel into the fire of injustice. Rather than hate law and law enforcement, pray for healing of law and law enforcement. Pray for a world where the citizens love the law, and there is peace and harmony between those who follow the law and those who enforce the law. But before this can happen, we need to decide what the law should be, and make every effort to recreate a new set of laws that we can honor and love.
And believing that we are powerless to change the law (us vs. them mentality) is probably the first place that needs healing.
Before any of this can happen, the individual must face the rules of their own personal living patterns. Do you do justice with yourself? Do you make rules for yourself and then break them? Is integrity a matter of slavishly following a decree, or does it take into account the justice of the circumstances of time and place?
When the citizens hate the laws and law enforcement, we throw fuel into the fire of injustice. Rather than hate law and law enforcement, pray for healing of law and law enforcement. Pray for a world where the citizens love the law, and there is peace and harmony between those who follow the law and those who enforce the law. But before this can happen, we need to decide what the law should be, and make every effort to recreate a new set of laws that we can honor and love.
And believing that we are powerless to change the law (us vs. them mentality) is probably the first place that needs healing.
