I have written of justice before, and been challenged on what justice means. Those challenges fell along political lines. Political ideology has the potential to alter our perception of what is just and fair. This is one of the blocks which we must get around.
Micah warns: "Hear this.... you .... who abhor justice and pervert all equity, who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong. Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, it prophets divine for money."
Translating these words into contemporary life takes some work. But I think we can do it. It begins with looking to the word and the ways of God, and judging our actions. It means having our membership in the Kingdom supersede our participation in the state.
Micah continues: "Yet they lean upon the Lord and say, 'Is not the Lord in the midst of us?'"
It is much easier to say that God is with us than it is to live the life which acknowledges God's presence. Being a follower of Jesus may begin with a verbal confession of him as Lord, but it finds its life in caring for those who are loved by God.
Join me in reading Micah. It is a short book. Yes, there are names of cities and such which will cause you to get confused. But don't let that stop you. You will understand what is being said. When we understand, then will come to pass the words of the prophet:
It
shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of
the Lord shall be established as he highest of the mountains, and shall
be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many
nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the
Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways
and we may walk in his paths."
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