Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call To Live And Die For Bigger Things Quotes
Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.
Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)
We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.
At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.
A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.
Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.
