And
now, you plutocrats, is the time for you to weep and moan because of the
miseries in store for you! Your richest goods are ruined, your hoard of clothes
is moth-eaten, your gold and silver are tarnished. Yes, their very tarnish will
be the evidence of your wicked hoarding and you will shrink from them as if
they were red-hot. You have made a fine pile in these last days, haven’t you?
But look, here is the pay of the reaper you hired and whom you cheated, and it
is shouting against you! And the cries of the other labourers you swindled are
heard by the Lord of Hosts himself. Yes, you have had a magnificent time on
this earth, and have indulged yourselves to the full. You have picked out just
what you wanted like soldiers looting after battle. You have condemned and
ruined innocent men in your career, and they have been powerless to stop you.
James 5:1-6
The Lord of Hosts will
see that justice is done. Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too
dull to hear. He is faithful.
Yet this promise
follows His call on how I am to live: and
if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the
oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will
become like the noonday. I am His arm, I am His ear. May I not be short or
dull. And may I not settle for, nay, strive for that which moths will destroy
and time will tarnish.
And all that will
be left are heaps of rubble as a marker proof of misspent priorities.
I am
small and of little account, yet I do not forget your commandments. Your
justice is an everlasting justice and your law is the truth. The righteousness
of your decrees is everlasting; grant me understanding, that I may live. Psalm
119:142-144
Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your Name. May your kingdom come, and
your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus
Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of His salvation, that we and
the whole world may perceive the glory of His marvelous works; who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
He gives us grace potent. James 4:5
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