How Long? // Roll Down Justice // Mar 1 2026

God has a history of wanting to work with us. But I fear that more often than not, God is up there crying, how long before you start doing what I ask you to do? We are God's partners today. The disciples who have accepted the baton of faith from the saints who told us about Jesus. We are the people to get the ball rolling so God will walk beside us to make thy will be done on earth as in heaven right now. [00:14:24] (38 seconds)  #GodsPartners

We are not alone. We are not alone in our grief and in our pain and in the unjust situations we find ourselves in. Jesus himself faced grief. His friend Lazarus died. He faced oppression. He even died unjustly because he had done nothing wrong, but he was willing to die for us to bring justice to the world. So God knows what we are going through, and the people who wrote the Psalms know what we are going through, and we are not alone. [00:08:54] (31 seconds)  #YouAreNotAlone

But there's one other way that we are not alone, but I'm afraid it's a little bit more challenging. What if when we ask the question how long? What if God is also asking the question, how long to us? We like to think about ourselves. We're struggling. We need help. God, where are you? And what if God is up there saying, hello? Where are you? What are you doing? [00:09:25] (42 seconds)  #GodAsksHowLong

And then he looked at all of them, and in Matthew 28, as he's about to leave, he looks at all of them and says, go therefore, making disciples of all the nations. Go therefore and do what I did. Go therefore and talk and teach and heal and love the next person, and the person after that, and the person after that. That's what Jesus came. That is what God's plan was. [00:11:53] (27 seconds)  #GoMakeDisciples

I didn't say, I think you guys are a little misguided. I didn't protest. I didn't go to the school district. I just put my kids on the bus every day. It was one small piece of nonconforming that I could do. And Paul calls us in the New Testament to not conform to the world, to turn ourselves to God's ways and not to do what the world tells us to do. And sometimes it's very small things that we can do in our lives that make a big difference. [00:19:05] (38 seconds)  #SmallActsMatter

He could have done those things, but he didn't. What did Jesus do? Jesus came and he hung out with a bunch of regular ordinary people like us. Mary and Martha cleaning houses, cooking food. Simon, Andrew, guys who fished for a living. Jesus sat every day and taught them how to do what Jesus did. He taught them how to heal people, how to listen people, how to see people, how to love people. [00:11:18] (34 seconds)  #JesusTrainedOrdinaryPeople

Jesus and the prophets don't give us a road map of exactly what choices we're supposed to make. God gave us free will. God says, I have faith in you that you're going to go do amazing things because I created you in my image, and I have given you love and joy and peace inside you that you can go and bring this to the world. As Amos said, let justice flood the lands. Let it flow through our lives. [00:20:45] (36 seconds)  #JusticeThroughUs

we get to be part of God's goodness. We get to build God's goodness in the world right now. So let's not ignore the injustice. Let's not turn away and say, this is too much. Isn't there someone else? Isn't God gonna take care of this? Because God sent us to take care of it. God trained us to take care of it. And each of us have some small thing that we can do today and this week to answer the call of how long from someone. Amen. [00:23:31] (30 seconds)  #AnswerTheCallNow