Wednesday's thoughts

My Disciple Class is responsible for the sermon this week. They told me I should use what we had been talking about in class as the basis of my sermon, hence it uses the prophets. Micah 6:6-8 and Amos 5:21-24 are major passages with some from Jeremiah 1:1-19.

First, I want to celebrate the great gift we have been given in our land, the USA. This is a country unlike any other, a melting pot of all races, nations, ethnicities, etc. A nation of great beauty, of rich farmland and abundant resources of all kinds. A land founded with a vision symbolized in the Statue of Liberty.

But any nation is called to fulfill its divine destiny, and as Jesus said, "To whom much is given, of them will much be required."

The vision seems to have gotten lost amid all kinds of 'idols' and skewed priorities.

The prophet's message speaks to our day: "What does the Lord require of you but to do justice to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God." And, "let justice roll down like waters and righteousness as an everflowing stream." The prophets and Jesus were not just, nor even primarily talking about individual justice, but always about the corporate, the community, the nation, the people. They are talking to the nation of the USA,not just to us as individuals. So we all, as a people, are to let justice roll down, to do justice to the whole family of humankind.

How do we serve as the people of faith to call our nation back to this vision of being the melting pot, of being a people who care for the 'homeless, tempest tossed...?

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