Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.”
NL Daily Devotion for Thursday, July 30, 2020
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
I’ve never been to prison, or been tortured. I can’t possibly relate. When I hear about people in my country—in my own home city of Minneapolis—being subject to police violence, unjustly jailed, tortured by oppression, I can’t begin to imagine their pain.
On the other hand, that is what God calls me to do. Of course I can’t relate to their experience. That’s not the point. The point is to imagine myself alongside them. To imagine I am in prison with them, tortured with them, and let that spur me to take action with and for them. If I were terrified of the police, if I were seen as less than human, if I were jailed for an action privileged people did with impunity, what would I want to have happen? And whatever that is, it’s God’s call for me to demand it for others.
Gracious God, make me deeply aware of the suffering of my brothers and sisters, that I might be moved to action. Amen.
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