"Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one." - v. 2
Again, I find myself slightly annoyed by Paul's hubris.
Maybe it's true -- maybe they truly have not wronged, corrupted, or exploited anyone. But it doesn't seem to work that way in the world in which we live.
I earnestly try to approach everyone I know as a child of God. But I know that I have wronged others. I have unintentionally cut people off in traffic. I have not alway spoken kindly of some of my children's classmates. I have exploited more people than I could ever know - simply by purchasing items in a global marketplace. And that doesn't even begin to touch my sins of ommission - all the things I have failed to do and have left undone.
John Wesley (yes, Methodism again - sorry) told us to
- First - do no harm
- Second - do all the good you can in all the places you can and in all the ways you can as long as ever you can.
I work on the second - but I'm really really far from mastering the first.
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