Amos 5

What encouraging words to seek the Lord and live. God desired so much for Israel and yet they were not operating the way He desired. You can practically hear God’s heart breaking as He talks about the unrighteousness and injustice they were living in. I mean for God to say seek good and not evil to His people is sad. But they oppress the righteous and the rich take advantage of the poor. They are even following some of the formalities of what God called them to, but they did it with the wrong heart and it wasn’t transforming them in the way they treated people. So God will judge them, but he warns before He does. He tells them exactly why and what they can do about it. The day of the Lord won’t be good for them because as God comes to establish righteousness and justice on the earth, He will be coming after them. Right things, done in a right way that transforms our lives to care for people rather than taking advantage of them and seeking His glory and not our own…that’s what God wants from His people…us and them!