A Call to Be Just

Some of us are engage in jobs with glamor, high salaries, prestige and respect. Others have jobs which have them travelling, speaking and lecturing all over the world. These jobs require all the best that we have to offer. Most often, these jobs seem to take all our time and effort and strength. In the process of our giving our best to our respective jobs, we burned out physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually.

When the foregoing happened, we need an activity that is the antithesis of what we do all day to feed and cloth ourselves and our families. We need to engage in a "calling" which would help others and shake us out of our "routines." While it is nice to have a career that puts your brain to the test and utilizes your reasoning power, it is even better to have a sort of "calling" in life that gives you the opportunity to help those who have less in life. This "calling" need not cost you much nor take more time than you are willing to give. This "calling" can be done right wherever you are at precisely this moment. You simply have to believe and trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

We need to engage in this "calling" of alleviating the plight of those who are more needy than we are, not only as a routine "shaker" of sort, but also because it has proven health benefits. Doing good provides you with a certain kind of high no "uppers" will ever provide you with. It will give you a sense of purpose and usefulness which is really unique! Truly, one cannot do good without reaping a kind of reward.

One such "calling" is helping identify and eliminate injustice where we find it. We need not go far. Where we are right at this moment, in our respective homes, will be a good place to start engaging in this "call to be just." We can do this by giving just compensation and a little extra to our "helpers." Those people who provide us with services that are really necessary in making our daily life comfortable, such as our housekeepers. It is but just that we give them what is due them and more, in accord with what we can afford. We can be just in our places of work, by being kind and fair to our co-workers, especially those who are subordinate to us in position or salary rank. We can be just in our community, by doing our share in the maintenance of harmony in our neighborhood. A little just act here and there is what is needed for justice to prevail in this world. We need not be powerful men in robs and bang gavel to be just. We can do it in our own little way, daily.

Difficult? Maybe it will be easy if we constantly bear in mind that there is a just Being up there who is always watching us all. The same Supreme Being who said: Woe to those who enact evil statutes, and to those who constantly record unjust decisions, so as to rob the poor of my people of their rights. Isaiah 10:1-2

If the constant thought of God will not move us to do what is just all the time, then nothing else will.