The words of Jesus in Matthew 12:30 read, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”
To safeguard one person’s value to God is to safeguard everyone’s. To violate one person’s value is to violate everyone’s.
How so? Perhaps it is because Jesus is at work, the world over, every moment in the depths of every human heart. He is constantly seeking to open every heart to know how valuable it is to God. When I am in agreement with him the balance of power in this world shifts in his favor and everything he is doing gathers momentum. But when I am not in agreement, I scatter that momentum and his work in each heart suffers.
So consider that we have at our fingertips endless opportunities to advance the purposes of incommensurable goodness in others with just a thought of blessing, especially a prayer-filled thought or we can just as easily co-op with evil.
A prayer is in order:
“Jesus, on the cross you were made to be the totality of my sinful self — the nightmare of what I am without you so that in you I might become the righteousness of God. Let this be one more day when, by constantly affirming of the preciousness of others to you, my repentance advances your redeeming power to reverse all the horror I’ve done or that which I failed to protect others from. Amen.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 — “God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.”
