Posted on 08/28/2024 6:00:33 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Bible in a Year :
Seek good, not evil, that you may live.
As a teenager, Ryan lost his mom to cancer. He found himself homeless and soon dropped out of school. He felt hopeless and often went hungry. Years later, Ryan founded a nonprofit that empowers others, especially young children, to plant, harvest, and prepare their own garden-grown food. The organization is built on the belief that nobody should go without food and that those who have something should care for those who don’t. Ryan’s concern for others resonates with the heart of God for justice and mercy.
God cares deeply about the pain and suffering we face. When He observed terrible injustice in Israel, He sent the prophet Amos to call out their hypocrisy. The people God once rescued from oppression in Egypt were now selling their neighbors into slavery over a pair of sandals (Amos 2:6). They betrayed innocent people, denied justice to the oppressed, and trampled “on the heads” of the poor (vv. 6-7), all while pretending to worship God with offerings and holy days (4:4-5).
“Seek good, not evil, that you may live,” Amos pleaded with the people. “Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is” (5:14). Like Ryan, each of us has experienced enough pain and injustice in life to be able to relate to others and to be of help. The time is ripe to “seek good” and join Him in planting every kind of justice.
Reflect & Pray
What injustice do you see others enduring that resonates with your own experience? How might God use you to help them?
God of justice, thank You for not turning a blind eye to the pain and suffering in our world.
For further study, read Did Jesus Care about Justice?.
Hi Kathy, thanks for tonight’s Canteen and for remembering our Troops.
Good evening, radu...hope you have had a not too hot day.
Light rain most of the day...about an inch so far.
Howdy, Kathy.
A soggy Hump Day up there but Hump Day, it is!
It was pretty toasty today but not very humid. It was after 6:00 when I did it but I hopped on Champ to get some mowing done. Should have passed on that idea. Champ needs to go back to the mower doctor again. :-( Broke something pretty bad this time.
Now that I’ve calmed down a little from fuming, it’s time to throw something together for supper.
At least there isn’t a lot of wind with your rain today. It was kinda crazy yesterday.
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...are you and Tippy and Blue enjoying some nice summer weather?
It’s raining again here, but it just means I don’t have to water the lawn. d:o)
Hello, lightman...we will never forget our brave servicemen and women.
Are you all caught up on rainwater?
We started light rain again last night with an accumulation of about an inch so far.
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
Hurrah for us!! We made it thru hump day.
I had five and a half inches of rain during the first nine days of August but there has been NOTHING ever since.
Last week there were some abormally cool mornings (lows in the upper 40s) so the dew saturation was wonderful.
But the plants are hurting again this week.
Hello there, Pro...we must always remember.
Raining again here. Nice fall weather for you?
Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...any ubering coming up? Do you still have folks you delivered that aren’t ready to come back?
We, well I, are “enjoying” more rain.
Oh no...poor Champ! Hope he gets fixed before you have a jungle again.
I was really surprised at the high winds yesterday...they went on for a long time. And it’s been lightly raining since last evening....a little over an inch so far.
Breathe in, breathe out...find something soothing for supper.
Evening, Kathy! Appreciate so much the military pics.
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