Rooted Together

What does God have to say about our going to church and going through the motions? Read Amos chapter 8 and find out. He calls out His people for crushing the needy and cheating people for profit. As believers we need to approach all aspects of life in God honoring ways and where we err we must repent. 

How do we see God's justice and mercy balanced throughout the book of Amos? We see that balance when we come to chapters like chapter 7 where God is pronouncing judgment and yet mercy in the judgment. God has the right utterly destroy us and yet has grace through the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. God made a way where there was no way. Follow Him today. 

What does spiritual ease look like? It looks like not worrying about sin or repentance. It means we seek security in things other than God. Israel's pride is what brought about their downfall. Our pride and will bring us as followers of Jesus under the discipline of God. May we fall on our face before a mighty God! 

Amos Chapter 5 serves as a breath of fresh air for us as we come out of the first four chapters. We see that as the first four chapters show God as just and righteousness through His judgment of the nations and Israel. In chapter five we see God's mercy and grace on display. He calls to His wayward people to seek Him and live. Seek Jesus today and live, truly live. 

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God does indeed call His people to holiness. In these two chapters He lays out His court case as to why He will judge Israel. We must then ask, then what is God telling us today? 

What does it mean that God is a Just God? Is He thus wrathful? We will see throughout this book how God balances His justice and righteousness with His mercy. Amos explores the reality that God does not sit idly by as the world does injustices. There is a limit and a point at which God judges. As we explore Amos together, let us also examine our hearts and heed the call to return to God and live. 

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In this epilogue to the book of John, John gives us one more story of the resurrected Jesus. He really did rise from the dead. John writes these things that you would belief it. We also see that following Jesus comes at a cost of our lives in whatever fashion that may mean. Yet we have this glorious call to follow Jesus as Lord and Savior. Will you believe in the Word made Flesh today? Will you, despite past failures, follow Jesus again and love Him about all else? 

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The streams of Belief and life combine to form a majestic waterfall moment in the book of John. John very plainly tells his readers why he is writing all of these stories. He writes these things that we might believe and live. 

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As the seemingly chaotic arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus unfold we see that what seems to be a situation spiraling out of control is going according to how Jesus had said over and over it would go. From the irony of the Romans mocking Jesus as a king and failing to see that it is a shadow of Him as true King, to Pilate's insistence that Jesus is innocent, to the repetition of "to fulfill Scripture", we see that the events of chapter 19 are a God orchestrated movement to redeem a lost and dying People. Will you believe? 

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Does it seem that the world is out of control sometimes? Okay, like all the time but is the world really out of control or is it under the control of our great King Jesus? We will see in this chapter that John wanted to showcase that Jesus's arrest and death were completely under the control of Jesus. Never did anything happen that Jesus did not allow to happen. If he was in control then, we can trust that He is in control even today!