Do we need revolution?

In a world where government structures are often oppressive many people want to fight the system. However, the more we fight the status quo, the more likely we are to embrace it for by our very fight we validate its existence and affirm its powerful influence. It is the same process that makes it more likely for children of alcoholics becoming alcoholics themselves even after having vowed never to do so. So we see marxists becoming even worse capitalists than the ones they fought and liberation fighters and anarchists becoming worse dicators and setting up more oppressive systems than the ones they fought. Victims become victimisers and so on. Jesus, however, did not start a revolution fighting the system but he provided us with a different way of viewing and living reality from the perspective of the Kingdom of God. It is when we learn to view and approach all things from His perspective we ourselves will be revolutionised and make a constructive impact in the world.

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