anti-poverty week

i heard tim costello talk today.

i have never heard a man talk with such passion about social justice and without the usual shouting and yelling; although he did come too close to the microphone which resulted in the undescribable pain in my ears (as some of you know, my ears can't take really loud noises). AND he didn't even have notes to refer to! i want to do that someday, talk for more than 10 minutes on a certain topic and not need to look down onto a piece of paper to remind me of the next thing i have to say.

micah challenge: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God (micah 6.8).

stephen curtis chapman had a song with that challenge in it. i have it as a welcome message on my phone without even realising what it actually meant. i've tried being humble in my walk with God but it's nothing without justice and mercy to those around me, isn't it?

more often than not, i catch myself thinking/reacting negatively to strangers around me that don't fit the 'social norm': 'he stinks' or 'that skirt is way too short for those thighs'...stuff like that. who am i to judge others when they too are made in the image of God? to judge them would be like judging God. how can we judge God when He made us, and loved us, and sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins? He owes us nothing and we owe Him EVERYTHING.

from today, i will do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with my God.