Reading:
What is the disposition of my heart when someone comes to speak against me?
Have I forgotten my high and holy calling as one chosen and known by God?
I want to walk with God. Am I agreeing with Him?
Will I listen to those who tell forth God’s will and way today?
Is the adversity I’m facing a consequence of rebellion?
Would a message like the one in this passage have a positive effect on me?
I look around me at God’s people and see ruins.
I look at me and see ruins.
Of course, not everything is ruins — I see more than ruins. But right now I’m thinking of the ruins.
Ruined lives. No longer whole. Marred by sin. Scarred by sin and self. Some more than others but everyone ruined.
Individuals. Families. Churches. Ruined.
“In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old” (Amos 9:11).
That’s what I need!
I want the Lord to raise up my ruins, building me, closing up my breaches.
Question is, do I want that enough to yield myself fully to Him and His plans and His ways?
Always a catch, huh?