Religion & Spirituality
Alistair reflects on Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 and Matthew 25:31-46 as part of KNEC Church Online on 22 November 2020.
There are some things we can safely take from this story of the sheep and goats:
The separation of sheep and goats takes place when the Son of Man comes in glory with the angels - End time? Post calvary? Until then, both sheep and goats live together. In the Middle East, then and now, it’s not so easy to tell the difference between a sheep and a goat but the shepherd knows. The story teaches that the sheep on the right are commended by the King on the Throne for serving Christ through their care of the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick or imprisoned whereas the goats on the left are condemned for failing to do so.Barbara Brown-Taylor wrote that, “by entering into the experience of the cross, God took the man-made wreckage of the world inside himself and laboured with it - a long labour, almost three days - and he did not let go of it until he could transform it and return it to us as life. That is the power of a suffering God, not to prevent pain but to redeem it, by going through it with us”.
(Barbara Brown-Taylor, God in Pain (1998).
“To live our lives based on the principles of a love ethic (showing care, respect, knowledge, integrity, and the will to cooperate), we have to be courageous. Learning how to face our fears is one way we embrace love. Our fear may not go away, but it will not stand in the way.”
(bell hooks)
O God, you reign in Christ
Let your kingdom come
And your will be done
On earth as in heaven.
As you have found us
Move us with your compassion
To find you in the other.
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