As I shared with my classmates last Friday, I’ve been convicted – like the Pharisee and the Levite in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, I have passed by the needs of others, especially the helpless and oppressed.
Do I truly seek justice and righteousness, as required by Him (we read this in the OT as well as the NT (eg. Matt 23:23))?
Will He say this of the Malaysian church, as in Isa 5:7b, “he looked for justice (mishpat), but behold, bloodshed (mispach); for righteousness (tsedaqah), but behold, a cry (tsa'aqah)!” In the book of Jeremiah, we concur that to know God is ‘to do justice and righteousness and to judge the cause of the poor and the needy’ (Jer 22:15-16).
May.
