bridal gift

Monday January 21^st, Isaiah 62: 4 Your name will no longer be "Deserted and Childless," but "Happily Married." You will please the LORD; your country will be his bride. 5 Your people will take the land, just as a young man takes a bride. The LORD will be pleased because of you, just as a husband is pleased with his bride.  The coming of the Lord into the land, or into our hearts, brings hope for the hopeless.  Those who feel abandoned are not only recognized, they are loved, glorified, and cared for.  This is the Christian call to care for the least, lost and lonely in the world, because in our need, in our feelings of being the least, the lost and lonely, Christ with us is more easily seen and felt.  As the children of God, we must continually ask ourselves, would we, as a country, a state, a community, please the Lord as his bride?  With the ever expanding separation between the rich and poor with the top 1% of the population owning more than the bottom 90% (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VHNXTBwj80) would the Lord of all creation be pleased?  Would the Lord be pleased with fences designed to separate being built both in the Holy Land and on our southern border?  Would the Lord be pleased with the endless debating of the value of a decent minimum wage while hardly batting an eye at the mulit-million dollar executive bonuses at the welfare recipients at the top of the wealth pyramid?  Are these the examples of what we lovingly present to the Lord?  Should we not instead offer justice as a bridal gift?  Forgive us Lord, and love us into acting justly, Amen!!