We all want God to intervene to get things done to free people and the world of injustice, unfairness, bad leadership, evil influences. The list is long.
We regularly read promises in the Bible that God gives or provides all kinds of good things such as justice and freedom and joy. Then we pray and hope to that end – that God would intervene and actively do those things, often assuming God will make it happen independent of us. There's expectations for a divine intervention, a gift, a miracle, an answer to prayer. Sometimes it happens. God can and does intervene outside of our involvement and even despite our inactivity.
Our Creator God has set out a way of living and being. When we follow those ways and means, is that not then “God” doing those things? This doesn’t ‘disempower’ God. It embodies and incarnates God’s presence and power in us who live and act out those ways in the world. This perspective releases the ‘gospel’ from a disembodied and purely spiritual ‘message’ and incarnates it into every single aspect of how we live and move and exist. Nothing is out of reach or left untouched by the ways and means of God.
So, when the scripture describes God as giving freedom to the prisoner, or relieving those who are weighed down, or giving justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry, etc., put your name in there.
Jesus Christ said that we, His followers, would “do the same works I have done, and even greater works…”.
We all want God to intervene. So then, get up and intervene.
