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.
Moving right along in the Bible today brings us to the book of Amos (1-4). I am drawn to what Amos has to say because he is just a regular guy, a shepherd, sharing God's word. Like the other prophets, Amos is trying to get the attention of God's people who are so caught up in their ways, they don't realize how far they have drifted from God. I am definitely seeing a pattern here. How about you?
