The CEOs sit in their offices high
Peering out over a world they own and manipulate
The politicians sit in their offices
The judges in their chambers
The preachers in their studies too
Pondering power
Plotting and planning
About how to make and remake the world
Their speculations are based on statistics and polls
And success is measured in dollars
Or perhaps
Influence
Power and wealth
Those are the standards by which they measure everything
This is not new
From Adam and Eve and the desire to “be like God”
To Cain and Able
And those who would build a tower reaching as far as
heaven
Control
Profit
Empire
It was into this world
The world of Rome
That Jesus came
Coming with a power that did not look like power
Coming with a wealth that did not look like wealth
Coming as a poor child
The progeny of common people
Oppressed people
Coming to do one thing
Illustrate the Love of God
And what that looks like when one is filled with that
love
Jesus tested his behavior against one standard
The love of God
That was the beginning and the end
The Alpha and the Omega
Love
A love that did not expect value in people
But created it
A love that looked like
Compassion, welcome, acceptance
Service, generosity
And
Sacrifice
A giving of self to and for others
Not a using of others for self
God’s love
Agape
That is everything
That is the answer
Love coming down
Love dwelling in us
Love oozing from us
There will be this day a thousand chances to choose
To do the next right thing
And there is one question we must ask
One question only
What reflects God’s love?
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