Salty and Shiny

Tasteless Salt

Tasteless Salt

Hidden Light

Why Tasteless and Hidden?

Because of NOT Being...

they who delight in HIS commandments

Psalm 112:1 NRSV

Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.

Psalm 112:

Gracious, Merciful and Righteous

Psalm 112:

Psalm 112:4 NRSV

They rise in the darkness as a light for the upright; they are gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Generous and Just

Psalm 112:5 NRSV

It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.

Distributed freely and given to the poor.

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Psalm 112:9 NRSV

They have distributed freely, they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.

We Deceive Ourselves

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Isaiah 58:1–8 NRSV

Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God. “Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers. Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush, and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.