SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/21/2015
10:56 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Struggling with the Lord PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 7:1-9
Message of the
verses: “1 Thus the Lord GOD showed
me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to
sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing. 2 And it came
about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,
"Lord GOD, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, For he is small?" 3
The LORD changed His mind about this. "It shall not be," said the
LORD. 4 Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to
contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume
the farm land. 5 Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand,
for he is small?" 6 The LORD changed His mind about this. "This too
shall not be," said the Lord GOD. 7 Thus He showed me, and behold, the
Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. 8 The LORD
said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb
line." Then the Lord said, "Behold I am about to put a plumb line In
the midst of My people Israel. I will spare them no longer. 9 “The high places
of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I
will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.’”
We were talking about the phrase “God changed His mind,”
in our last SD on the seventh chapter of Amos and if you did not read that one
please do so as I am not going to go through that explanation again. We also said that there were three visions that
Amos saw and the first on we looked at in our last SD, and we will look at the
last two in this SD.
The second vision was a devouring fire and it comes from
verses 4-6 of chapter seven. In this
vision the fire dried up the water and then burned the land and thus it would
bring great drought to the land of Israel. Amos was so worked up about this
that once again God changed His mind.
Now the last vision will have a different outcome and
that vision is that Amos saw a plumb line, and He measures His people to see
how true they are to the pattern in God’s Word, and if what He sees is upright
in character then perhaps God would not send this judgment. The truth is that they were not upright in
character and God did not change His mind here and thus God will send judgment
on Israel. God’s patience and
longsuffering had run its course and not God was ready to bring judgment on
them.
10/21/2015 11:11 PM
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