Monday, May 08, 2017

What Would Jesus Do?

It is hard to read
Their words cut like knives
Health care is not a right
If you’re sick or older
Pay more for your care
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!
You cannot afford it?
Nobody dies from lack of care
Wait unit you’re really sick
Then go to the ER
They can’t turn you away
You can die there

And yet these same people
Good Christians that they are
Fight hard for their religious freedom
Their right to discriminate
Against anyone who is different
They say it’s God’s will
What would Jesus do?
Would he recognize these Christians?
Perhaps he’d call them Pharisees
Where is the love that Jesus displayed?

Jesus hung out with society’s unwanted
Tax collectors, prostitutes, lepers
He healed the sick, even on the Sabbath
Jesus showed us what love looks like
He cared for the poor and chastised the rich
This carpenter’s son was a rebel in his day
Jesus challenged the authorities
And showed us how to live with others
We must fight for God’s Kingdom
Resist!