Saturday, 7/5/14
The readings today promise better times for us. The Psalm
foresees a time when “Kindness and truth
will meet, justice an d peace will kiss.” Even that firebrand Amos, who has been prophesying doom all week long, now foresees a
time when the Lord will seal up the breaches in our walls.
God is not going to come down to impose these good times on
humanity. No, when his good times come, it will only be by God working through
us. It will only happen when people like us respond to God’s promptings: when
we let him open our hearts to the needy, when we follow his promptings to hold
back our hands from profits we have not earned honestly.
A Christian is someone who makes himself or herself an agent
through whom Jesus can continue carrying on the good works he performed when he
was alive.
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