I find these videos compelling and disturbing on a number of levels. To name a few:
1. Reminds me of the brokenness all around me I almost never see but am called to bring the healing of Jesus to.
2. Helps me enter into a longing for the return of Jesus and the redemption and restoration he brings in my resurrection and that of His world (Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 15).
3. I hear the sentiments of “go and do likewise” echoed throughout (Luke 10:37).
4. Makes me thankful for the police, for God’s servant appointed to do me good (Romans 13:4), and a country where they are a positive force.
5. Helps me see the ugliness of sin and makes me appreciative to Jesus for the sin he had to endure- afflicted upon him in his life and what he bore upon himself on the cross.
6. I’m reminded of the call to suffer. That as part of His body – the church – I am still filling up “what is lacking in Christ’s sufferings” (Colossians 1:24).
7. Helps me rejoice at Jesus, the ultimate minister of God for our good, the perfect and final harbinger of justice.
