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When my son was small, we used to have a Saturday morning ritual
of watching the carton, ‘Bucky O’Hare.’
Bucky, as we came to know him, is a green hare who captains a mammal spaceship and
fights against the slightly inept United Animals Federation and the sinister
Toad Empire. The thing that always intrigued me was that Bucky’s spaceship was named,
‘The Righteous Indignation.’
What gets you wound up, outraged, incensed, angry? Righteously
Indignant? Too often it’s the small things that get blown out of all proportion
and the big things that pass me by.
I’ll complain that the supermarket have delivered the wrong
brand of sauce but sit and do nothing about the growing human trafficking
disaster that is sweeping the world.
Ehud realises that he has to go back and deal with the King
because Eglon is making a mockery of God. Not only does he think something
needs doing, he knows that he is the one who has to do it, he can’t leave it to
anyone else. He is reminded, near Gilgal, that the nation has drifted far away
from God. He gets righteously indignant, takes responsibility, confronts the
issue and sorts it out.
Perhaps we need more ‘Righteous Indignation’. Bucky and Ehud
had it! Not over Daddies or HP, but over the things that matter most to God.
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