Reading Amos 5-9 today, was one of those hair raising kind of experiences. God is just flat out fed up and disgusted with His people and their sins against Him. He shows Amos some really horrible stuff that will bring total destruction, sparing no one. That is scary to me, and I have a hard time reading Bible passages like that. Why? Because I am not sure what to do with them. They are the verses that bring the fear of God into my here and now.
