Look, today I am setting you
over nations and over kingdoms,
to tear up and to knock down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.’

It sounds strange, and faintly ridiculous, that the Lord tells us
today that he set us up to knock over nations and kingdoms. What is
true is that in our baptism and confirmation, he has sent us into the
world as prophets – much more than the prophets of the Old Testament,
filled as we are far more than they by the Holy Spirit and elevated
into the redeemed humanity of the co-eternal Son. But in this passage
the Lord underlines the importance of spending our days filled with
doing good. It’s not that we have to focus on all the evils in and
around us – but rather to focus on how much good we can do for our
neighbour and our neighbourhood: the power of good totally outweighs
the empty weakness of evil. And if we all simply did that, there
would be no worldly problems. So let’s renew our courage and our
brazen love, and spend all our day doing good wherever we can. This,
in itself, flips over the evil around us, and in our world.