Something popped up in the news today… a story so bewildering and strange you’d think it was lifted from a tabloid. Vice president Sara Duterte will slaughter one hundred cows as an offering to the heavens in exchange for making the Philippines a secure and prosperous nation.
To the Dutertes, prosperity and slaughtering go hand-in-hand.
What does the Bible say? Let’s look at Micah 6.
6Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Can you imagine with me a Philippines where, as an offering to Jesus, we all live justly, love kindness, and walk with our God in all humility? Where all deal with all fellow Filipinos with respect to Justice, where we show kindness to each other, where there is no haughtiness among the rich?
