A quick look at Sunday’s Lectionary, here is the Proverbs passage;-
“22:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
22:2 The rich and the poor have this in common: the LORD is the maker of them all.
22:8 Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.
22:9 Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.
22:22 Do not rob the poor because they are poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
22:23 for the LORD pleads their cause and despoils of life those who despoil them.”
This is probably one of those bits that needs doing rather than thinking about. Just one thing, though; if God pleads the cause of the poor, with whom is God pleading? Who is the arbiter? It feels real to me though. Rather than God being in control, it often feels to me that God is pleading for those who are poor and unjustly treated – who are still getting mistreated right now.