Yes, after seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. But she will be no different than she was before. She will again be a prostitute to all kingdoms around the world. But in the end her profits will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will not be hoarded but will provide good food and fine clothing for the Lord’s priests.
-Isaiah 23
I often wonder about this life we live.
I spend some of my time with homeless people who seem so hopelessly addicted to chemicals and habits. The funding for proper programs to offer mental health counseling instead of pills and the recovery groups would never see its way through our law making system.
I often wonder what happens to the victims of addictions.
How does God view the sins of those who are oppressed by a system of sin?
What choices do they have?
How can anyone expect them to "pull themselves up by their boot straps?"
And then I read things like this in the bible.
I see great sin turned into great good.
I see the invisible forgotten people of this world stuck in their systems of sin transformed into doers of great good.
Tyre may still be a prostitute but the end of the story is different. There is hope lining the pages of these words. Always hope.
The profits she makes will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will be shared throughout the kingdoms and will provide good food and fine clothing!
Is God ok with using the money earned through prostitution?
Is God ok with using drug money to feed and clothe those who have not?
What sort of God is this that can turn anything into beauty?
What God is this that after 70 years Tyre still continues to sin and yet we do not find another 70 years piled on her sentence but instead we find redemption? We find beauty in a most grim place.
As I see generational poverty
alcoholism
drug addictions
mental health issues
systems of oppression
in this most grim a place I find beauty.
I find hope.
I find love.
I find God.
Abel Korzeniowski - And Just Like That
-Isaiah 23
I often wonder about this life we live.
I spend some of my time with homeless people who seem so hopelessly addicted to chemicals and habits. The funding for proper programs to offer mental health counseling instead of pills and the recovery groups would never see its way through our law making system.
I often wonder what happens to the victims of addictions.
How does God view the sins of those who are oppressed by a system of sin?
What choices do they have?
How can anyone expect them to "pull themselves up by their boot straps?"
And then I read things like this in the bible.
I see great sin turned into great good.
I see the invisible forgotten people of this world stuck in their systems of sin transformed into doers of great good.
Tyre may still be a prostitute but the end of the story is different. There is hope lining the pages of these words. Always hope.
The profits she makes will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will be shared throughout the kingdoms and will provide good food and fine clothing!
Is God ok with using the money earned through prostitution?
Is God ok with using drug money to feed and clothe those who have not?
What sort of God is this that can turn anything into beauty?
What God is this that after 70 years Tyre still continues to sin and yet we do not find another 70 years piled on her sentence but instead we find redemption? We find beauty in a most grim place.
As I see generational poverty
alcoholism
drug addictions
mental health issues
systems of oppression
in this most grim a place I find beauty.
I find hope.
I find love.
I find God.
Abel Korzeniowski - And Just Like That