The Forgotten
I have a busy schedule. I wear a lot of different hats. My attention is pulled in many directions. I can forget quickly. I forget that Scripture commands me to love justice and mercy, to use my influence for the betterment of others. To look to the needs of others first and consider their needs greater than my own. To speak up for the rights of the down and out.
I can let the "business" of life become an excuse not to do these things. Its funny how, most of the time, the things I am concerned with deal with me. My needs, my wants, my plans. What will make me more comfortable. More influential. More wealthy.
I am reminded on the words of Isaiah when he responded to seeing the glory of God by saying "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." Soon after he responds to God with "Here am I, send me."
I must not live for myself. I must be sold out to the Gospel. I cannot ignore the commands of the Lord. I cannot be consumed with me. If I know Christ, if I know His power, if I have tasted and seen that the Lord is good. Then I cannot keep it in. I must obey.
May I allow the Word of God to penetrate my hard and selfish heart and ruin me, that I may "love justice and mercy and walk humbly with my God." Speaking up for the down and out and esteeming the needs of others as greater than my own.
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