The God of Creation

by Chuck Adair on November 30, 2023

The God of Creation

Read Amos 4:13
Today’s Truth

God’s judgment is often misunderstood as arbitrary punishment to make sinners suffer for their wrongdoing. Some people look forward to it falling on their enemies. Others are terrified of it falling on them. Amos 4 shows us that God’s judgment isn’t simply anger vented at sinners. It is God’s way of restoring justice and bringing His wayward people back to Him.

Discussion Question
  1. How do you treat the poor?
  2. Our worship according to Amos is at time pretentious. Why is it we think it is alright to live in comfort while the poor continue to be oppressed?
  3. What does it mean to you to turn your heart completely to God?
Life Application

Amos 4 reminds us how seriously God takes the mistreatment of the poor and the miscarriage of justice. Judgment is an expression of His love for the oppressed. Yet it is also His way of bringing us back into a right relationship with Him.

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About the Author
Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

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