The Law and the Cross

The Law and the Cross
Colossians 2.13-19

The crowd was already angry, and it got angrier as we watched. They had come together to protest about the shooting down of a Korean jumbo jet over the southwest Pacific. Most of them had lost relatives or friends in the disaster. And, whether rightly or wrongly, they were blaming the Soviet Union for it.

First they simply chanted and waved banners. But then someone spotted, in the forecourt of a garage, a Soviet car. Suddenly it became the symbol of all that they were angry about. They set upon it with crowbars and hammers, and smashed it to pieces. Then, just as they were finishing, someone produced from somewhere a Soviet flag, with its hammer and sickle. With glee they tore it to pieces and set fire to it. They celebrated over it triumphantly...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright