Just Courage by Gary A. Haugen

Author:Gary A. Haugen [Haugen, Gary A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780830875924
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2009-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Hard Facts of History

This then is the ultimate paradox of our despair over injustice. It masquerades in the robes of hard thinking, realistic analysis and modesty, and dismisses hope as illusory, naive and even arrogant. But truth be told, it is despair that has the facts wrong. In the long run, it is always the tyrants and bullies who end up on the ash heap of history. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe is long indeed. Sometimes unbearably long. But on both small and epic scales, it does bend toward justice. And miraculously, God has given into human hands the power to bend it more quickly to its ultimate destination. This is what the facts of history tell us. Indeed, God intends that our hope in the work of justice be built not simply on bare theological assertions about the character of God but also on the hard factual evidence about the track record of God.

Hope is not simply wishful thinking; it is a fruit of the Spirit born of the spiritual discipline of remembering. This is why, even in the darkest eras, God has left us a witness of what happens when his people believe and follow him in the fight for justice. In the next chapter we will meet three people whose witness could not be more dramatic or breathtaking, and yet almost none of us have heard their stories. Here is an opportunity to remember what surprising things God can do.

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