Amos 6

November 13, 2022

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Reading along with us in Amos? Here’s today’s reading:

Amos 6 (NIV)

Woe to the Complacent
1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,
and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,
you notable men of the foremost nation,
to whom the people of Israel come!
2 Go to Kalneh and look at it;
go from there to great Hamath,
and then go down to Gath in Philistia.
Are they better off than your two kingdoms?
Is their land larger than yours?
3 You put off the day of disaster
and bring near a reign of terror..........Continue Reading

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  2. Complacency, excessive wealth that is self aggrandizing and pride are addressed in this chapter. To think God’s people look and act the same as the heathen nations around them is sad. They just look for comfort and ease, the desires of self rather than the needs of others. They focus only on what they want and not what God wants. Pride promotes self and selfish interest, and God desires humility. This chapter and the last kind of sounds like our nation and it’s pride and evil. It’s seeking to do good things but without the power of God. May we keep pressing into the person of God and seek to be the people God’s wants us to be…

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  3. This is a great lesson and reminder to avoid a passive life, one that relies on one’s strength rather than the Lord, one that is centered on excessive comforts and wealth, instead of God’s will and purpose. I pray my life will be about God rather than myself..

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  6. Pride is an ugly thing that leads to ugly results. We get comfortable in our own abilities and our own accomplishment and forget that we only have these things because God gave them to us. Israel was cared for, protected by, and saw many victories through God and yet began to internalize that it was all them and God reminds them here that what He has given He can also take away!

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