How you hear this text depends on which side of the bed you rise
as some who lie on beds of ease truly care about those who never will. But Amos
has harsh words for those who consider their place of privilege a right and
sing idle songs without considering the songs of lament sung by others. So what
you have is not as important as what you do with it or as Jesus will say, to
those whom much is given much is required. That is not to say there is something
God pleasing about being poor or that pleasing God makes one rich. God exists
beyond the economic, racial, and gender lines we draw. “In Christ there is
neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female.” (Galatians 3:28) Rather God
cares about everyone in the human family and will do whatever it takes for us to do the
same.
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