“so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:11 (NIV)
The plain message of Amos 8:1 thru 9:6 is that God’s judgment is sure!
He has said that He will destroy His people who practice religious activity without living a righteous life and He will destroy us and our loved ones - we won’t be able to hide from Him. Not only will He destroy the hypocrite and their families, but He will also destroy their places of worship. One of His punishments is to send a famine of hearing the Words of the LORD -
oh how quickly we forget this truth.
oh how quickly we forget this truth.
Isaiah 55 rejoices in the power of God’s Word - but what happens when God cuts people off from His Word? Without His Word we shrivel and die.
We have seen this in our land and will continue to see this- churches who are about religious activity without a righteous life end up without the Word. They have the books in their pews, and the Words on their walls but they don’t hear the Word. It isn’t opened, it isn’t read, it isn’t explained, it is not applied to the heart, and the churches wither and then die, although trust funds keep the doors open the Spirit has vacated, the lampstand has been removed.
In the first 2 years of my high school experience in Belleville in the 1980’s Scripture was read over the PA. Then it stopped - no longer read in the schools in our cities. No big deal - its only school - yeah its only school but it is also the judgment of God, the beginning of our destruction,
as a community.
as a community.
This is where our world view is so upside down to God’s truth - we think being silent is a sign of non-judgment but when God is silent, we are under judgment. We think that when someone puts their finger on something in our lives that they are being judgmental. But when God puts His finger on something in our lives, He is being merciful and gracious.
O Father forgive us we pray- speak to us again - we are listening!
O Father forgive our loved ones we pray - speak to them again-bring them to a place where they will listen.
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