writing grievousness and unrighteous decrees #1

“…The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live…”
(Ecclesiastes 9.3)
 
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD,
and bow myself before the high God?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good;
and what doth the LORD require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God?
(Micah 6.6, 8)

another installment in america’s mad state of rebellion:
writing grievousness and unrighteous decrees #1
6 february 2022

​“… pharmaceutical companies hiked prices on hundreds of medications to start the year. A recent report from the patient advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs found that drug companies have increased prices on more than 550 drugs, including 183 drugs whose prices were raised by $100 or more, and 118 drugs that now cost more than $5,000. Pfizer alone raised prices on 125 drugs, more than any company, even as it shattered profit records thanks to $36 billion in sales from its widely-used COVID vaccine.
 
“‘Even as we enter the third year of a pandemic, Big Pharma continues its practice of targeting American patients and consumers with price increases, completely undeterred by the financial and health challenges facing American families,’ David Mitchell, the founder of Patients for Affordable Drugs, said in a statement.
 
“‘Drug corporations can do this because we let them — unlike other nations that use their purchasing power to get a better deal…’”
 
Companies and their CEOs are, or course, free to choose good over evil, people over profit. But in the present moment dominated in America by capitalism’s false doctrines, they will not; for profit is viewed as the greatest good and justification for any evil. This, in itself, is an indication of America’s mad state of rebellion and is worthy of its own brand of condemnation. But this madness is multiplied many times over by an American ruling elite that has, through its writing of grievousness and unrighteous decrees, abandoned its citizens to become prey to the insatiable avarice of the masters of mammon and mayhem and death. Isaiah would speak no differently to today’s America than he did over two thousand years ago to ancient Israel. Some things simply never change, no matter the form of government—monarchy or “democracy.”
 
“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,   
   and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 
to turn aside the needy from judgment,   
   and to take away the right from the poor of my people,  
that widows may be their prey,   
   and that they may rob the fatherless! 
And what will ye do in the day of visitation,   
   and in the desolation which shall come from far?   
to whom will ye flee for help?  
   and where will ye leave your glory?” (Isaiah 10.1-3)
 
I, for one, anxiously await the “day of visitation.”
 
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!