Executive Order

I applaud Obama for his recent executive order close Guantanamo Bay. May it happen swiftly and appropriately.

I am hesitant to hope for this big 'change' thing, and I am cautions so as to avoid disappointment. But I wonder, if maybe, just maybe, this could be a brighter chapter in the history of the United States.

But Obama cannot save us. Let's not forget where our hope really comes from, were ultimate and complete justice originates: Jesus Christ. Oddly, Jesus' life centres around mercy, a form of injustice. Jesus proclaimed release of the captives and the year of the Lord's favour. The year of the Lord's favour is in some ways a very bad thing, for the oppressors and the bankers. Debts are released and land is given back to the original family owners.

Obama cannot proclaim the year of Jubilee, but maybe he can cough up a few microseconds of Jubilee.

Lord haste the day, when my faith shall be sight!
And the clouds be rolled back as a scroll!
The trump shall be sound, and the Lord shall descend!
Even so, it is well with my soul!

I invite you to appeal to God for a greater release of justice in the world:
God, I pray that you would be saving us. Be saving the world, be saving New Zealand, and be saving America. Please forgive us for our sins, personally, and nationally. We don't look to inspiring politicians for salvation and justice, we trust in you. Please bring your kingdom to the world, to New Zealand and to the United States. Replace the injustice with justice, replace the torture with mercy, replace the attitudes in our hearts that hate life with abundant joy and love for our fellow creatures. Thank you for what you have already accomplished at the cross, and for the glimmers of justice that we see even now. Come Lord Jesus! Save this world, save New Zealand, save the United States, and save even me, a sinner against you. Thank you for your grace!

Peter