This Thing Called Justice.
A man I greatly admire made a statement at the 2021 Exponential Conference in Nigeria which has stayed with me. Leke Alder, a Brand Consultant with Alder Consulting said, and I paraphrase, that many prayers in Africa can be solved by good policy implementation. His illustration to this thought was that if there were good hospitals in our nations, proper public health systems, great nutrition and the like, most diseases would be a thing of the past and so our prayers for health would be greatly reduced.
If our infrastructure was set up the way it should be, the economy would be alive and many prayers about unemployment and poverty would be no more.
This got me thinking about the Kingdom of God as a political outfit and not just an exclusively spiritual one. Call it a spiritual kingdom if you like. But a kingdom, none-the-less. A place or territory ruled by a king, with a government, administrative officials, and subjects. It has me thinking about the big biblical word Justice, and what it means for the Christian, the church, the state, the world.
What does it mean to live in a kingdom who’s territory and government supersedes the one listed on your passport? What does life look like when you are an ambassador of a kingdom you cannot see operating from a physical space with a national ID?
I do not have the answers to these questions. Rather I am searching the scriptures to make sense of a reality that I ought to be more aware of, and a responsibility I should be exercising more deliberately.
To be continued…
