{"id":2496,"date":"2023-04-10T08:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T08:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2023-04-10T08:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T08:54:44","slug":"rivers-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good Monday morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the 15th week of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amos 5:24 says, &#8220;But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some similar verses from the Bible:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Micah 6:8 &#8211; &#8220;He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah 1:17 &#8211; &#8220;Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proverbs 21:3 &#8211; &#8220;To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 33:5 &#8211; &#8220;The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah 56:1 &#8211; &#8220;This is what the Lord says: &#8216;Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.'&#8221;<br><br>Let&#8217;s put all these verses in the &#8220;Bible poem blender&#8221; &#8230; here we go! <br><br>Rivers of Justice: A Monday Morning Bible Poem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let justice roll on like a river,<br>Righteousness like a never-failing stream.<br>For this is what the Lord requires of us,<br>To act justly and to love mercy, is God&#8217;s central theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn to do what&#8217;s right and just,<br>Seek justice with unwavering trust.<br>Defend the oppressed and care for the weak,<br>Take up the cause of those in need, and let them speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do what&#8217;s right and just, the Lord demands,<br>More pleasing to Him than compromise&#8217;s strands.<br>He loves righteousness and justice&#8217;s ways,<br>Unfailing love filling the earth&#8217;s vast array.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us emphasize His divine call,<br>Justice rolling like rivers, never to stall.<br>Righteousness flowing, a never-failing stream,<br>His glory, like the sun, on us will beam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May we seek justice and love mercy too,<br>Walking humbly with Him, in all we pursue.<br>For His Kingdom is near, let us prepare,<br>To live with Him, in a world beyond compare.<br>Let us uphold these values with all our might,<br>For His righteousness will soon be revealed, bright.<br><br>Let&#8217;s kick off this week with a roll of justice like a river! <br><br>Philemon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday morning! Welcome to the 15th week of 2023. Amos 5:24 says, &#8220;But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!&#8221; Some similar verses from the Bible: Micah 6:8 &#8211; &#8220;He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rivers of Justice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}