Come to Jesus

Alaska former governor, Sarah Palin, is quoted (here) recently as saying, "America desperately needs to have a 'come to Jesus' moment in discussing our big dysfunctional, disconnected, and debt-ridden federal government,"  She went on to, of course, attack the president for failing to tackle the national debt and, instead, irresponsibly leaving it for later generations to deal with.

While I strongly disagree with most of what Gov. Palin said this time and usually says, she is not wrong to argue that we need a "come to Jesus moment" in the U.S.  The Jesus I'm thinking of, however, is not hers but Martin Luther King's Jesus.  It is the Jesus who inspired Gandhi.  This Jesus preached good news to the 47%, virtually teaching that one day, in the Kingdom, they would be the first of the land.  God will spread the banquet out for them.  The 1% (to mix figures) will be left standing outside the gates.  If we were to "come to Jesus" in this sense, what we would find is that fiscal responsibility is a peace and justice issue.  Balancing the budget and paying down the debt is important, but how we balance and who pays is just as important.

Amen.