Just and fair

Lily Cathcart October 07, 2024 5 3

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Psalm 72: 1-4 (NRSVA)

1  Give the king your justice, O God,
   and your righteousness to a king’s son.

2 May he judge your people with righteousness,
    and your poor with justice.

3 May the mountains yield prosperity for the people,
    and the hills, in righteousness.

4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
    give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.

In the beginning of Psalm 72 we find a prayer that God will make the kingdom’s ruler just and fair. Someone that will protect and champion the poor and needy in the kingdom, and who will not allow those who would oppress others to continue. I feel like this is a message which speaks easily to us across time and space, a message of how to be a loving leader and a message of hope for a prosperous home and community.

Isn’t it comforting that the people who first sung and scribed this psalm had hopes like us?

Mission is the movement of a message from place to place whether wrapped in papyrus or wrapped in song. It is also the hope of movement within the places they reach: movement of hearts and movement towards true justice.

As you go about your day today notice the leaders that you encounter: at work, at church, in clubs and families. Whoever you notice why not send up a prayer for them, ask God to make them loving and just and fair, protecting those in need and rejecting whatever might oppress those who they care for.

Prayer:

Dear God of justice

Help us to hold our leaders to account

Help us to offer ways they might change for the better

Give us the strength to change our own leadership too

And to step up when change requires we take action

Amen