Reading: Amos 5:21-27 .
"let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream" Amos 5:24
When I was a teenager, I went with my dad, my uncles and cousins \u200b\u200bto fish trout in the headwaters of the Sacramento River in California. This river is the result of melting snow, so the water was rushing, clear, cold and refreshing. My cousins \u200b\u200band I could not resist getting into the icy stream while we were fishing rainbow trout.
Upon returning home, we stopped to take a dip in a pond quite different. The water was warm and smelled like stagnant. Contrasted greatly with the other stream as fast and exciting.
The prophet Amos uses the metaphor of a stream of water to illustrate the transforming power of justice. Dismayed by the religious rituals and lifeless in Israel, and exploitation that made the poor (Amos 2:6-8 ; 5:21-27), claimed to be trial and impose justice. He noted that the people of God was stuck in the stagnant pool of injustice to others, when they needed was a life marked by "justice as a mighty stream."
Likewise, God wants us to let the trial outbreak of our lives and "run [...] as the waters." One way is to fight for just laws and there advocating for the kind care of the poor. Seek to be part of the mighty stream of justice of God until Christ vuelva.__ HDF
Reflection: Justice appears when the truth is put into action.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Numbers 28-30. Mark 8:22-38.
"let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream" Amos 5:24
When I was a teenager, I went with my dad, my uncles and cousins \u200b\u200bto fish trout in the headwaters of the Sacramento River in California. This river is the result of melting snow, so the water was rushing, clear, cold and refreshing. My cousins \u200b\u200band I could not resist getting into the icy stream while we were fishing rainbow trout.
Upon returning home, we stopped to take a dip in a pond quite different. The water was warm and smelled like stagnant. Contrasted greatly with the other stream as fast and exciting.
The prophet Amos uses the metaphor of a stream of water to illustrate the transforming power of justice. Dismayed by the religious rituals and lifeless in Israel, and exploitation that made the poor (Amos 2:6-8 ; 5:21-27), claimed to be trial and impose justice. He noted that the people of God was stuck in the stagnant pool of injustice to others, when they needed was a life marked by "justice as a mighty stream."
Likewise, God wants us to let the trial outbreak of our lives and "run [...] as the waters." One way is to fight for just laws and there advocating for the kind care of the poor. Seek to be part of the mighty stream of justice of God until Christ vuelva.__ HDF
Reflection: Justice appears when the truth is put into action.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Numbers 28-30. Mark 8:22-38.
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