SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/29/2015
9:58 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Promoting
Injustice
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 5:7
Message of the
verses: 7 For those who turn justice
into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth.’” “7 You who turn justice into bitterness and
cast righteousness to the ground (NIV).”
We are looking at the first sub-point under the main
point “Seek the Good.” We learn from
this verse something about human government, and the reason that God
established human government was because of the sinfulness of the human
heart. We all have to agree that we as
humans need an established government even though at times it is not what we
would like it to be. When we look at the
apostle Paul’s writings we see that he never spoke bad about the government of
his day even though slavery was prominent during his time along with many other
things that we would consider as not being the best, but we as humans need some
kind of government for if there were none then we all would be in trouble. Dr. Wiersbe writes “Justice is supposed to be
‘a river…an never-failing stream’ (v. 24 NIV) that cleanses and refreshes
society, but the leaders of Israel had turned that refreshing river into bitter
poison (see 6:12).”
In our study of the book of Revelation we have learned
that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again at the end of the Tribulation period
to destroy the works of Satan along with Antichrist, and the false prophet. The book that was opened in chapter five is
the title deed to planet earth and Jesus Christ is the only One who can open it
and once it is opened then the judgments will begin to take place on planet
earth as we see that the usurper Satan will finally be put into the lake of
fire and justice will then be what will happen when the Lord Jesus Christ rules
from David’s throne in Jerusalem for 1000 years.
Until that time comes we know that righteousness and
justice should be the pillars that hold up society, but when we look around at
governments today we know that this is not the case. In the days of Amos we can see that there
were a lot of lawsuits, which shows us that society was falling apart and we
can see the same thing going on in our nation in today’s world. “They make many promises, take false oaths
and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a
plowed fields (Hosea 10:4 NIV).”
Dr. Wiersbe concludes:
“Instead of running to religious meetings, the people should have stayed
home and seen to it that their leaders weren’t poisoning the river of justice
and knocking down the pillars of righteousness.
Christians are the salt of the earth, and salt prevents corruption. They are the light of the world, and if there
were more light, there would be less darkness (Matt. 5:13-16). The church must not abandon its marching
orders and turn preachers into politicians, but it dare not ignore the problems
of society—problems that can be solved by the application of the Gospel and the
truth of the Word of God.”
9/29/2015 10:18 PM
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