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Sibling in Christ,
What are you hungry for?
This weekend's worship names a deeper hunger—God’s justice. Through the prophet Micah, God speaks with the urgency of a wounded lover: “O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you?” God places the people on trial not to condemn them, but to awaken their memory.
Remember, God says. Remember deliverance from slavery. Remember mercy shown across generations. Remember who you are—and how you have been called to live.
Micah’s answer is simple and demanding: do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God. Not grand gestures of power or religious excess, but lives shaped by gratitude for what God has already done.
A prayer from Latin America echoes this call: “Lord, to those who hunger, give bread. And to those who have bread, give the hunger for justice.” God satisfies our deepest hunger with grace—and then gives us a new hunger, not for ourselves, but for the sake of the world God loves.
That same paradox runs through Paul’s words to the Corinthians. God’s wisdom does not look like power or success. It looks like the cross. God chooses what the world calls weak to reveal a deeper strength—a justice rooted in self-giving love.
Jesus makes this unmistakably clear in the Beatitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit… the meek… those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. These are not passive virtues, but signs of lives oriented toward God’s reign, where mercy overturns cruelty and justice grows quietly and persistently.
When we gather as the body of Christ, God meets us in our hunger. In baptism, Word, and table, we are fed with forgiveness and life. Our hunger is satisfied—and our hunger for justice is renewed.
Nourished and sent, we go into the world, blessed and broken, to feed the hunger of others through lives shaped by justice, kindness, and humility—trusting that God is even now bringing the kingdom to fulfillment.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Will
P.S. Where do you hunger for God’s justice? I invite you to click reply and share with me. See you this weekend in worship!
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