Tuesday

Read Amos 8:4-7

⁴ You people crush those in need

and wipe out the poor.

⁵ You say to yourselves,

“How much longer before the end

of the New Moon Festival?

When will the Sabbath be over?

Our wheat is ready,

and we want to sell it now.

We can’t wait to cheat

and charge high prices

for the grain we sell.

We will use dishonest scales

⁶ and mix dust in the grain.

Those who are needy and poor

don’t have any money.

We will make them our slaves

for the price

of a pair of sandals.”

⁷ I, the Lord, won’t forget

any of this,

though you take great pride

in your ancestor Jacob.

Eugene Peterson translates verse 4-6: “Listen to this, you who walk over the weak, you who treat the poor people as less than nothing…”

How have you been a victim of injustice? How does it feel to hear that God is keeping tabs on what people are up to?

How have you been a perpetrator of injustice?

Lord I’m very aware of when people are unfair to me, but not very aware of when I am unfair to others. Help me to see more clearly.