SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/18/2015
10:37 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Intro. To Amos
7-9
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 7-9
Message of the
verses: What we are going to do in
this Spiritual Diary is to give a kind of a guideline of what we are going to
be looking at as we work to conclude our study in the book of Amos. Since I follow the commentaries of Dr. Warren
Wiersbe it is best to quote what he has to say in his introductory comments on
these three chapters. He has entitled
this last chapter in his commentary “Stop—Look—Listen!” We will have to do this as we stop to listen
to what we are going to look at in these final three chapters.
“The prophecy of Amos concludes with the record of five
special visions of judgment that God gave to His servant: the locusts 7:1-3, the fire (vv. 4-6), the
plumbline (vv. 7-9), the basket of fruit (8:1-14), and the ruined temple
(9:1-10). However, the prophet closes
his message on a positive note as he describes the future glorious kingdom that
God has promised to His people (vv. 11-15).”
But these visions center on three experiences of the
prophet in which Amos struggles with God and man (chapter 7), declares that
with God and Man (chapter 8) and affirms that God is working out His perfect
plan (chapter 9).”
As I look at these final chapters from the book of Amos
and see how God’s had was working through the prophet Amos to accomplish what
it was that He wanted him to accomplish, I couldn’t help but think about the
different testimonies that different missionaries gave at our eight day
missions conference. I have always enjoy
listen to how the Lord has called missionaries and got to hear how this
happened with the different missionaries at our conference. Ever since I became a believer and going to
my first Missionary Conferences I remember wanting to be like the missionaries
but it did not seem to be the calling that God has given to myself, but that
did not detour my admiration for the men, women, and their children who have
dedicated their lives to go around the world to tell others about how the Lord Jesus
Christ came from heaven to purchase salvation to all those who will accept that
calling of the Lord for salvation. Being
a missionary means that you have to be willing to go and to do what the Lord
wants you to go and do. I suppose each
and every one of these missionaries could write many volumes on how the Lord
called them, how the Lord began to work in their lives as He prepared them to
do the work that He has called them to do.
I thank the Lord for missionaries.
10/18/2015 10:52 PM
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