Sorry for the teaser — I certainly don’t pretend to have the ultimate plan to “reconcile” our nation in the dissent and differences on health care. However, this morning, I am reviewing the lesson on “Consummation,” the end of the story, as told in Revelation 21 and 22, and there I found encouragement in God’s plan. His plan will be fully revealed and finally fulfilled in that one day, but the really good news is we need not wait until the end to discover it. Christ’s kingdom has been established, and even today, the Holy Spirit is working in our hearts to transform and reform. Today I am reading about the health that has implications for health care reform, both here and now in America, and more broadly in the world: the reconciliation Christ has brought and will bring to completion. I awoke with lovely lyrics playing in my head…check this Indelible Grace song out and see where it meets your heart on the issue of health care reform.
1. By thy reconciling love
Every stumbling block remove
Each to each unite, endear
Come and spread thy banner here
Chorus: Jesus, Lord, we look to thee
Let us in they name agree
Show thyself the Prince of Peace
Bid all quarrels forever cease
2. Make us of one heart and mind
Courteous, pitiful, and kind
Lowly, meek, in thought and word
Altogether like our Lord Repeat chorus
3. Let us then with joy remove
To thy family up above
On the wings of angels fly
Show how true believers die Repeat chorus
© 2004 Jason Feller Music.
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(FYI – I’m one of those “liberals” who welcomes this change as a step (but just a step) in the right direction. ) I have wondered for a long time why Christians haven’t done more to bend the system, as it has existed thus far, more towards covering everyone. Why couldn’t churches, or denominations, or coalitions of faithful people offer “group” insurance plans to all who wished to join, willingly “bearing one another’s” costs, just because we follow One who chooses to Heal and Reconcile?
an excellent question — a question I think we must as followers of the One who Heals must be asking — what is our part in the restoration of the broken health care system?