Justice and Worship
by Keith Brenton
05/01/2008 - Civil rights attorney Fred Gray wrote in his autobiographical book Bus Ride to Justice this summary of the change brought about by the Rosa Parks case in which he was involved in 1955-56:
"One could say that Mrs. Parks' refusal to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus created an ever-widening ripple of change throughout the world ... A pebble case in the segregated waters of Montgomery, Alabama created a human rights tidal wave that changed America and eventually washed up on the shores of such faraway places as the Bahamas, China, South Africa, and the Soviet Union. And it all started on a bus."
God's prophet Amos made it clear that He does not hear our worship if we do not practice justice that rolls like a river … or like a bus where there are no seats denied:
"I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. ... Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" ~ Amos 5:21; 23-24
"One could say that Mrs. Parks' refusal to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus created an ever-widening ripple of change throughout the world ... A pebble case in the segregated waters of Montgomery, Alabama created a human rights tidal wave that changed America and eventually washed up on the shores of such faraway places as the Bahamas, China, South Africa, and the Soviet Union. And it all started on a bus."
God's prophet Amos made it clear that He does not hear our worship if we do not practice justice that rolls like a river … or like a bus where there are no seats denied:
"I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. ... Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" ~ Amos 5:21; 23-24
posted at 5/01/2008 06:58:00 AM
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