Understanding the revolutionary cry

This will strange to some ears, but I have always understood so well and deeply the Marxist/Anarchist shouts of ‘revolution’! Behind their anger and political know-it-all-ness there is a pained cry: ‘we are in a mess and we should not be content with the way things are; radical change is the only answer!’ As a Christian, I pray that this cry never stops making sense to me and that it will always prompt me to seek first the Kingdom of God (Mathew 6:33) and then, in response, to always look to claim something completely new and not just reformed. As Christ said to his disciples in Luke 5:37: ‘And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).’ 

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