1. When we see that a drunk judge in South Australia hit a bicycle rider on the road with his expensive car, drive away, leaving him for dead and getting away with it without a charge. This judge left a family devastated, a grieving mother and father, a grieving wife, a grieving child and grieving friends and yet the justice system lets the judge off because he has a good lawyer and knows how to get around the law. May the judge see and know the mercy of the great judge, and may the fatherless child come to know the Father in Heaven, and may the widow know the true husband that is the husband to all believers.
But Is this justice in our law system, here and now?
2. When we see multimillion dollar South Australian Government Workcover (insurance companies) squash the little man or woman after their work injuries and put them over a barrel with lying and cheating, the stealing of documents, placing gag orders on people after Workcover is found out by parliament, ombudsmen and/or judges to be in breach of right and ethical behaviour, which even go to very high levels in the state government. These cases are becoming too frequent now and the state government is accountable to no-one. Is this justice? Is this justice when a government can say "we have an unlimited budget" to get this or that person. A no matter the cost attitude to frame, coerce and convict that person, forget about ethics, we will make up our own rules as we go. Is this justice?.
3. When we see a state government that is not accountable to the public even in their parliament. They are always there for the spin, however they are not there for the parliamentary questions to be answered. Up to Dec 2009 there were an extraordinary 2,572 important unanswered questions. These are all meant to be answered within 30 days. If not answered within 30 days, Minister has to explain reasons to Parliament why he did not or would not answer them. Mr Rann still desists in answering them and not even his own party holds him accountable. There is an old saying that "absolute power corrupts absolutely". Is this right, is this proper behaviour from someone who is given the important and awesome responsibility to lead the state of South Australia. I don't think so! Do we sit on our hands and sit glibly by while our government does this.
4. Do we stand idly by and let so many murders happen in our state and call it simply a "termination of pregnancy" or "dilatation and curettage". Does anyone care for the unborn, the babies that cry not, but feel the pain and full force of the crushing instruments of death and the suction tubes that destroy life in the theatre rooms of our hospitals. We call it convenience to have the abortions. We say that there is only the rights of the mother to choose, however there is no right or choice for the unborn baby. And we allow between 80 000 to 90 000 abortions per year in Australia each year.
This equates to approximately 250 per day, or one abortion for every 2.8 live births. This also equates to nearly one in three Australian women having an abortion in their lifetime (
www.lifenetwork.org.au/_blog/Abortion_in_Australia/tag/Statistics/).
When Jesus came to the city of Jerusalem before His death on that cruel cross and before His rejection by the Jews, the people of God, he was walking into Jerusalem, surveyed the scenery and looked and saw something that caused Him much grief. The Bible at this point says "Jesus wept" John 11:35, which happens to be the shortest verse in the Bible, and yet probably one of the most profound and touching verses. He no doubt saw the rejection of the people of Israel who before Pilate, was trying to release Jesus, as Pilate saw nothing in Jesus worthy of death. The people cried out "crucify him", "His blood be upon our own heads". He saw His crucifixion no doubt when He looked and set His face to Jerusalem, but I am sure He was thinking of the devastation that was going to happen to Jerusalem in 70 AD.
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The destruction of Jerusalem happened through the hand of Titus a Roman soldier and leader. Jerusalem was surrounded, decimated and flattened to the ground and, as Josephus writes, nearly a million Jews were killed and crucified on crosses all around Jerusalem. There were so many people crucified and being killed on so many crosses that Josephus said they could not find enough wood to crucify all the people. "His blood be upon us and our children" they said. When Jesus saw Jerusalem, no doubt He saw His death, but He must have also looked into the future and seen the death and destruction of so many of those Jews who were to soon reject Him, their horrible death and their destruction. At this point Jesus is overwhelmed with grief. Jesus weeps. He is touched and broken to the core of his being at the vision of all this destruction and death and I often think to myself about our Lord and the destruction of these babies, helpless inside the womb, tortured with no pain relief. I am sure the Lord weeps over this death and destruction of these helpless babes.
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