September 05, 2024
Daily Devotion:
"The God of Justice"
2 Chronicles 36:15
New International Version
15 The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.
Micah speaks today to those with “power on their hand”. These richer citizens coveted the land of the poorer farmers and they spent their days thinking how to take their land away. I don´t know how things are where you live. Where I live, money is power.
Corruption has reached such high levels, that you can buy everything and everybody. If things don´t work as you want, you just fill the pockets of the men who make the laws and they will change them for you. This is what was happening in Judah. They took what they wanted because of their wealth and their authority, thinking that it was their
right to do as they pleased to make huge profits that would make them even richer.
Proverbs 22:22 says, “Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate”. The Lord has a big heart for the poor, for the afflicted, for the oppressed. He will make justice for them.
Judah didn't´t want to hear the prophets God had sent them and continued in their wicked ways. They didn't want to hear that, soon, the lands of the rich would be taken away by a foreign power. Are we listening to what God is telling us? Are we changing our behavior when God calls our attention?
