justice.

Last weekend after our tournament on the mainland, we went to Ikea! It was my first time there, and I have to say that now I'm hooked. The only thing that makes me question my newly found love of it is the fact that on the packages of the things I bought, most of them said 'Made in Lithuania' or '...Viet Nam.' I don't want to support the use of sweatshops or cheap labourers on third-world or even second-world countries. I don't want to make those people suffer for my desire to make my room look nice. It's not fair, and it just doesn't make sense that we, North America, as a continent, basically has the rest of the world working to satify us.
I'm not saying that Ikea does use these methods to make their products, because I don't know. But, the fact is that MANY companies do. And many of us don't realize when we buy certain things... we could be supporting practices that are very, very wrong. Example: the laptop on which I am typing this was made in China. What a hypocrite I am.
It makes me think about when Jesus clears the temple and gets really mad at the people selling things there. He fought for what was the right thing to do. Our God is a God of justice, and it is what he seeks. But what a mess we make of it sometimes.