Abraham Kuyper founded and edited the newspaper ‘The Standard’. His reasons for editing this newspaper were clear and purposeful. On the twentieth anniversary of his editorship Kuyper wrote:
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. And sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God.
How will you work this week so that, in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people? How will you work to establish God’s justice? What can you do to establish God’s ‘shalom’ (peace and wholeness)? What can you do so that vulnerable people are respected and dignified?
God bless you this week as you live distinctively for him.