When I see Christ

I was watching "Amy Goodman: Occupy the Airwaves". Amy Goodman is the most respected journalist in the world (in my book). She gives the news as honest and detailed everytime I see her on Democracy Now or giving a speech.

I was completely ignorant of the her stories of massacres in Cambodia, conflict in Indonesia, etc. For example, Ken Saro-Wiwa, was an environmental activist from Ogoniland in Nigeria who spoke out against corporations like Chevron and Shell who work with the Nigerian government and cause extreme environmental damage to the land. He was arrested and executed by the Nigerian government in November 10, 1995, causing the nation to be removed from the Commonwealth of Nations for three years.

So inspiring.
So how come I am first learning about this man?

So what does this have to do with seeing Christ?

I believe Christianity in this nation is becoming something overly spiritual. Christ does not call us to live as though we have already crossed over into the next realm, exuberantly high and ignorant of issues around us. He called us to be right here on planet Earth.

His prayer was,
"¹⁵ My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. ¹⁷ Sanctify them by^[d] the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. "

(-John 17)

So Christ wants us to be right here, right now and experiencing life, with all of it's pain and discomforts. The worldly numb themselves of reality with "reality" television, alcohol and stimulants. We are to actively look conflict in the face and do something about it.

There is a world full of political instability, war, genocide, disease, and destruction to which nature is not to blame. My luxuries make it impossible to relate or even care. I run to my riches and gadgets for comfort when life gets hard and every night ask "Where is Christ?"

Here's the kicker: he is in the middle of conflict, never too far from it.

I'd be a fool to think I know everything. In my few years, I am beginning to realize I am just beginning to understand very little. There is a giant world with giant sufferings that needs hope, perseverance, to be heard...that needs Christ. And I want to be there.

Thanks to Link tv and Democracy Now that is giving news around the world that is making simple folks like me aware of most things.