Contemplative Bible Reading

“The people of Israel have sinned again and again,
and I will not let them go unpunished!
They sell honorable people for silver
and poor people for a pair of sandals.

This is how far down the people of Israel fell. They are selling people; they are selling some people for a pair of sandals. A pair of sandals? This people was given a guide to living, a law, directly from God. A set of laws that was the envy of the world.

Yet they stooped to selling a person for a pair of sandals.

Are we any better today? “Well, of course we are!” is the immediate answer. Thinking further, however, brings to mind examples that I won’t write here as they are abhorrent.