The Way of Broken Humanity

The great scandal of sin and the brokenness of man is the understanding that any who are in the position of power would abuse that power at the expense of the “other”.

This is the way of broken humanity, and the only righteous “cure” is the gospel.

Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount continually pointed out our tendency to put ourselves in the seat of moral superiority. Our way is to minimize, excuse, ignore, or deflect from our own sin and draw attention to the sin of the “other”.

We already, in other words, abuse what little power we have to use that power to position ourselves as morally superior.

We are no better than. We are not superior to. All have sinned and have come short of the glory of God, who offers a very different way forward for us all.

We look at the officers who lit this match in self-righteous disdain. We measure the looters, rioters, and anarchists and hold them in contempt. We determine their guilt, and seek to justify or ignore our own.

I am guilty. We all are.

Our hope is not in our own evaluations of ourselves, or our humanistic determination to “rebuild” (those declarations are coming). They are not found in self-righteous condemnations of the American system.

Our hope is Christ and His gospel.