Contemplative Bible Reading

Ezekiel 22:7 (New Living Translation)

Fathers and mothers are treated with contempt. Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you.

The prophet is describing the collapse of a Godly people. The paragraph surrounding this verse includes many things such as these. Simply put, people are taking advantage of others who cannot protect themselves.

Shame. Shame. Shame. What else can we say?

I don’t run the show here. I have no shame here, right? Look upon others who have less and are less in the eyes of society. How am I acting? Where is my heart?