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Yet,
they lean upon the Lord and say “is not Lord among us? No disaster
will come upon us.” (Micah 3:11).
What
would Micah say today about those who carry on religious ritual or
preach peace, yet oppress the poor? (Serendipity Bible 10th
Anniversary Edition, page 1290).
None
dare call it oppression – this complacency and bland contentment
with the widespread payment of poverty wages. We sanctimoniously
declare that it's the result of a free labor market, and to that
market we bow in acquiesce as if it were the final determinant of
justice and fairness. We have made the market economy our idol and
have with it supplanted the one true God. In public speeches we hear
deeply intoned “God bless America” yet we ignore his holy
priorities and decrees. The Lord demands justice, but we have
responded with a bankrupt economic savvy that can excuse anything no
matter how egregious based upon a self-serving and man-made view of
the American Way. We allow the flow into wealthy private coffers
grossly unfair distributions of wealth. We require no fair payback
from the wealthy. Yet we feel that we can go on in this way
indefinitely and the Lord will allow no disaster to come upon us. We
have yet to learn the lesson that justice is a cosmic principle that
cannot and will not be relegated to our private trash heaps of
willful complacency. God’s truth will march on either with or
without us. Injustice always ends sooner or later with an unwelcome
harvest – the bitter grapes of wrath not only for the few, but the
many.
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