PRAYER PAUSE
Friday 1
July 2016
TAMPERING WITH
THE SCALES
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “By swindling and tampering with the
scales, we can buy up the poor with money.” (Amos 8:4 … 12)
Reflection. Amos was a ninth century BC prophet
with a burning social conscience. He was outraged by the exploitation of the
poor and fearless in his denunciation of oppression. Yet almost three thousand years
later we are grappling with the same issues, except that now it is on a grand scale.
We read Amos today but we also read of Matthew’s calling. His profession was
shadowy and yet Jesus called him. Those whose task is to proclaim the values of
the kingdom are often themselves “wounded healers.”
Prayer. Lord, give us the courage to proclaim
your kingdom even if we ourselves feel we are weak and fragile. Amen
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