Thursday, 30 June 2016

TAMPERING WITH THE SCALES

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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