What would Jesus do in Politics?

I have been struggling on how to prioritize my burden between God's ministry and politics/worldly affairs that is currently happening in our beloved country, 'MALAYSIA'. Should I continue to ignore the injustice, racist and corrupted government and being political neutral of what is going on today and continue serving God as if the worldly affair today has nothing to do with God's ministry? Also, having to consider in migrating to Australia/UK/Cambodia to seek a 'greener pasture' seems tempting. I just can't help it but explore and to share some views on how did Jesus deal in politics during His time and how we can walk like Him.

So I ask myself this popular quote 'What would Jesus do? When we read the bible and interpret the passages of bible, we will normally participate to have inward, spiritual and private relationship with God. As we read and understand the bible passages closely, Jesus truly had social political concerns that went beyond an individual indicates the bible passages in spiritualism and having a close intimate relationship with God.

We usually read these from Matthew's version contained in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3-11). But let's hear them from Luke's, which we don’t often read. Luke has it this way (Luke 6:20-25 “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep.”)

Jirair Tashjian, from Jirair Tashjian and The Christian Resource Institute further elaborates “It is in a time of economic and political oppression that that we hear Jesus saying, "Blessed are you poor, blessed are you who are hungry, who weep and mourn, who long for righteousness and justice, who are persecuted for righteousness. Yours is the kingdom of God. Don’t worry about what you will eat and what you will wear; God knows all about you and cares" (Matthew 6). There would be no problem for us in affluent America to listen to these words of Jesus. But Jesus was saying those words to folks who were in a desperate economic environment. To them, he proclaimed that the year of Jubilee had arrived, and so they should start living accordingly.
Later in Luke 16 Jesus tells the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, which perfectly illustrates these beatitudes. Perhaps one reason why we have a tendency to want to spiritualize the beatitudes of Jesus is that we can thereby escape their sting, or at least we think we can. So we have thought of Jesus in purely spiritual terms, as Savior, Redeemer, Son of God, with no social or political agenda. I don’t think we can read the gospels that way. Jesus did not divorce a social vision from religion. The message of Jesus was both spiritual and political. His political agenda was God’s agenda from all levels of the Old Testament—the Exodus from Egypt (slaves), Leviticus 25 (Jubilee), the OT prophets (passionate concern for the orphan and the widow).
In fact, the message of Jesus and his actions were so politically provocative that the Gospel of John tells us that at one point when Jesus had fed the five thousand with bread and fish, the crowd was about to come and take him by force to make him king. Of course, they misunderstood the nature of his political agenda, but they did perceive quite correctly that the message of Jesus had political implications and consequences.”

We may have thought we can separate issues between spiritual thing and worldly affair. But God cares about this world and wants a world where there is justice, peace, goodness and well-being. God is never pleased when children in Haiti go to bed hungry, while we throw food away into dustbins. God is never pleased when dictators in the world oppress powerless people. Salvation is not simply an individual matter. It also means a social order that is pleasing to God. When Jesus spoke of the kingdom of God on earth, he had a political agenda, which was God’s agenda.
But this kind of talk about another kingdom that is based on mercy, justice, and concern for the oppressed obviously made the powerful very suspicious and nervous. Those in places of power did not care for anyone who disturbed the status quo because that threatened their position of power.

No wonder, then, that Caiaphas wanted Jesus arrested. No wonder Pilate had Jesus crucified. And even Herod Antipas earlier in the ministry of Jesus wanted to have Jesus killed. The politics of Jesus empowered the weak, the poor, the needy. It gave them hope. It reassured them that God was here and that God was on their side. The politics of Jesus liberated people. Jesus empowered people, and that was a threat to people already in power.Jesus believed that there was a big difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the world, and he wanted the kingdom of God to become a reality in the world. And when that happens, it turns the world upside down. Jesus said to his disciples, "You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all" (Mark 10:42-44).

Likewise, we should do as what Jesus would do in the political arena. As for our current political situation, we children of God should rise up and represent Christ to fight injustice, to bring peace, goodness and well being of our rakyat by being a walking testimony and to proclaim God’s love and mercy to all rakyat in Malaysia. God gives us discernment and wisdom, to do our part by not being political neutral, to address and rebuke individuals who perform injustice, oppressing the poor and anything obvious which do not pleases God just like how Jesus would do.