Turn on the news or read the newspaper and you see the word, fraud. Vote fraud, to be specific. Yet one person's fraud is another's myth or suppression. If you ask me, whatever is at the root of it, it is hurting all of us. Whether the charge of fraud is false or the claims of myth and suppression are false, the root cause is the lack of truth. Where is our modern day Micah?
"Listen! The LORD is calling to the city — and to fear your name is wisdom— "Heed the rod and the One who appointed it. Am I still to forget, O wicked house, your ill-gotten treasures and the short ephah, which is accursed? Shall I acquit a man with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights? Her rich men are violent; her people are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully. Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins. You will eat but not be satisfied; your stomach will still be empty. You will store up but save nothing, because what you save I will give to the sword. You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil on yourselves, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine. You have observed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab's house, and you have followed their traditions. Therefore I will give you over to ruin and your people to derision; you will bear the scorn of the nations. " Micah 6:9-16
I'm just not hearing enough about finding the truth. I do not hear a cry for finding out if the scales of one person one vote are getting a short ephah. I do not hear a cry for "hearings" and "indictments" of the rich and powerful who wreaked havoc and violence against our economic systems, leaving the scales tipped against those who can not afford to lose a fraction of an ephah.
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