RE Verse reading–Amos 1-2 (day two) “This is what the Lord says, ‘for three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath” (vs 6) It is an old trap–seeing the sins of others but not our own. The people who listened to Amos enjoyed the first part of his sermon better than the last. For several minutes, he listed the sins of the neighboring nations. Nodding heads and amens. Finally, he came to the real point–the sins of Israel. The wrath of God is a strange subject. Most of us feel like it is uncalled for where we are concerned. Aren’t we different? The Bible says no. “There are no distinctions“, says Paul as he develops this same theme in the book of Romans. “For ALL have sinned (past tense) and fall (present tense) short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:22-23) Forgivness is possible, but blindness to sin in ourselves is the deepest blindness of all.
