The map below is a traditional map of the world, although it looks slightly different to what you are probably used to as it uses a system that shows each country by their actual size relative to each other.
We are used to seeing the world like this and consequently we are comfortable with how the world looks, but what if we start looking at things differently? The second map below is based on how Infant Mortality (those children who die in their first year of life) affects how we would see the world.
When we start to look at the world in a different way, it quickly becomes distorted and even uncomfortable to look at. We struggle to understand what it says, yet its so valuable. Surely in a world which was reflecting the Kingdom these two maps would look exactly the same, although instead of many nations there would only be God’s Kingdom. How can we Christians in the countries that are barely visible in the second map, sit comfortably in our homes knowing that this sort of disproportionate injustice is allowed to happen?
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Hat tip to Gordon for his post about Worldmapper which is the source of both maps.
interesting post