Eri-san, Stephen, and I hit the side roads in downtown Kanazawa this past Saturday night, which was where I felt God was leading us. There were so many people out! It's definitely picked up recently, and everyone was out eating, drinking, and partying.
We started by praying Psalm 10:12-18, which says,
Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”? But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out. The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land. You, LORD, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.
We read Congressman John Lewis's famous quote again:
When you pray, move your feet!
And Amos 5:24 from The Message:
Do you know what I want?
I want justice—oceans of it.
I want fairness—rivers of it.
That’s what I want. That’s all I want.
Bring on your fairness and justice, Lord, and rescue those who need help! This applies to so many folks in Kanazawa, around the world, and all of us in our hearts.
As Solzhenitsyn famously said:
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.”
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