Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgements, they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?’ Look, you serve your own interest on your fast-day, and oppress all your workers. Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush, and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rearguard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am. If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, (Isaiah 58:1-9a, NRSV)
Why do we do what we do?
Do you fast?
Do you pray in public?
Every act we do is something that we should see as a moment we are worshiping God.
Yes Every act!
Every Moment!
You see Jesus told the disciples in today’s gospel lesson that they are salt and light. He did not tell them that they could be, or will be, or might be.
He said Y’all are salt and Y’all are light! Everything you do as you go about your life is a way in which you share God with the world!
For the christian there is no time that we are serving God and a time we are not. We can not flip a switch and be dutiful followers! We are always being salt and light to the world and everything we do every moment of our life is showing the world about love and God!
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