Learn to do what is good. 

Pursue justice. 

Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. 

Plead the widow's cause.

Isaiah 1:17 CSB

It's Martin Luther King day in the US. His last march was in support of pay rates for sanitation workers. This kind of call to bring justice in concrete ways did not make him popular. 

"White America was ready to demand that the Negro should be spared the lash of brutality and coarse degradation, but it had never been truly committed to helping him out of poverty, exploitation or all forms of discrimination. The outraged white citizen had been sincere when he snatched the whips from the Southern sheriffs and forbade them more cruelties.

But when this was to a degree accomplished, the emotions that had momentarily inflamed him melted away. White Americans left the Negro on the ground and in devastating numbers walked off with the aggressor."

The disparities in our society are still there and seem to be growing. Health, education, income, housing. 

Doing what is good, pursuing, 

correcting, 

defending, 

pleading. 

That's what our God calls us to do. His passion for people didn't just melt away, He stepped in, stepped towards injustice and exploitation, and calls us to follow Him.

#mlkday