Psalm 49
This Psalm starts with an injunction for people to listen and pay attention - the message is not only for Israel but for all people in the world both rich and poor, highborn and lowborn.
What is the value of a human life? I just finished an audiobook yesterday called the Martian by Andy Weir. In the book an astronaut is stranded during a mission to mars. In the end he is rescued and as he travels back to earth he considers how much his rescue cost. The author carried on - even today huge searches are carried out for lost people, the RNLI and other volunteers such as mountain rescue put themselves at risk to save the life of those who are in danger.
Let us take a moment to be grateful for these people, give thanks for them and their work and hope we never have to use their services!
"Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me, who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?
No one can redeem the life or another or give to God a ransom for them.
A human life is literally priceless.
I'm going to speak out here with a challenge. It seems to me in the UK over the last few years that the government has been so keen to "balance the books" that they have ignored at best and penalised at worst the most vulnerable people in the country. They bash on about immigration targets, according to the BBC news website last week the net immigration target of 100,000 was missed by a factor of 3 (according to the story 57% were from the EU who have right to travel and work in the EU and 25% were non EU citizens) I feel that our political leaders have lost the care for people and want to try and appear tough on benefits and immigrants.
Personally I think that we should welcome immigrants and offer a refuge for asylum seekers. After all most "British" people are immigrants at some point or another - all it is is a matter of timing!
As Christians we are supposed to be called to a kingdom where nobody is native born (apart from Jesus).
So as the election looms let us tell our political leaders to bring compassion back into politics rather than party point scoring.
This Psalm starts with an injunction for people to listen and pay attention - the message is not only for Israel but for all people in the world both rich and poor, highborn and lowborn.
What is the value of a human life? I just finished an audiobook yesterday called the Martian by Andy Weir. In the book an astronaut is stranded during a mission to mars. In the end he is rescued and as he travels back to earth he considers how much his rescue cost. The author carried on - even today huge searches are carried out for lost people, the RNLI and other volunteers such as mountain rescue put themselves at risk to save the life of those who are in danger.
Let us take a moment to be grateful for these people, give thanks for them and their work and hope we never have to use their services!
"Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me, who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?
No one can redeem the life or another or give to God a ransom for them.
A human life is literally priceless.
I'm going to speak out here with a challenge. It seems to me in the UK over the last few years that the government has been so keen to "balance the books" that they have ignored at best and penalised at worst the most vulnerable people in the country. They bash on about immigration targets, according to the BBC news website last week the net immigration target of 100,000 was missed by a factor of 3 (according to the story 57% were from the EU who have right to travel and work in the EU and 25% were non EU citizens) I feel that our political leaders have lost the care for people and want to try and appear tough on benefits and immigrants.
Personally I think that we should welcome immigrants and offer a refuge for asylum seekers. After all most "British" people are immigrants at some point or another - all it is is a matter of timing!
As Christians we are supposed to be called to a kingdom where nobody is native born (apart from Jesus).
So as the election looms let us tell our political leaders to bring compassion back into politics rather than party point scoring.
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