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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Today's Passage : Today'sPassageWhat God Wants from Us BibleVerse:Amos 5:18-24 "oe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light, as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? Amos, engraving by Gustav Dore Amos “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”" Message:
Ancient Israel awaited the “day of the Lord,” when God would come down and destroy Israel’s enemies. But the time of Amos (and his more famous contemporary Isaiah), although a time of peak prosperity for Israel and Judah, was also a time of growing secularism. Devotion to the Lord was becoming ever more perfunctory. Many ignored their religious obligations totally. And increasingly, people failed to provide for those in need, the poor, the widowed, and the orphaned.
God saves girl from a storm
In this baleful passage, Amos asks the people of Israel why they act so eager for the day of the Lord to come. Everyone thinks that, simply because they are Jews and engage in the outward trappings of religious life, they will be part of the God’s victory.
If this sounds familiar, it should, because it is terribly close to Western society today. The media preach to us that nice people all go to heaven when they die. But what does the Bible say about idolaters and the self-satisfied?
[Beware anyone who] blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ . . . The anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. (Deut. 29:18-20)
The western world uses the Christian knowledge of heaven like a bedtime story for a frightened child. They spend their lives in sin, and even curse the name of God or Jesus, and yet they believe that their death will lead them to eternal peace. This is the great folly of America and Europe today; for the end waiting for the unfaithful is terrible.
The subject of God’s wrath and the hell that likely awaits most people after they die has become an unpopular subject in mainstream Christianity. But it serves us well to remember, from time to time, that the Bible does not change simply because we ignore parts of it. Damnation of the wicked and the unfaithful is terrible to contemplate and very real.
Amos indulges in hyperbole to make his point. He says, for example, “I take no delight in your solemn assemblies,” but we must construe this in light of the entire passage. God certainly loves our “solemn assemblies,” but only if they are sincere and come from people whose hearts desire righteousness.
Meditation : Prayer : Most High, Glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my mind. Give me a right faith, a firm hope and a perfect charity, so that I may always and in all things act according to Your Holy Will. Amen. |
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