We carry out our half baked ideas without consulting the Creator and wonder why they fail. We became inflamed by the masses and do not listen to Him in silence.
We know what is right but we choose wrong.
We know what God requires of us (Micah 6:8) but we disregard the truth in pursuit of the American dream.
The ethical teaching of the prophets regularly included oracles of judgment against greed, theft, and oppression, actions of the powerful in attacking the weak. To covet is not just to have a passing thought; it is a determination to seize what is not one’s own.
Micah 2:1-2
2 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And work out evil on their beds!
At morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
6 They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
Hosea 7:6
7 They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.
Hosea 7:7
8 Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 5:8
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