Prophets of Peace and the Pandemic
Greetings in the Lord~ Today's word comes from Amos 4 and is quite interesting in light of our recovering pandemic situation. It is a chapter in which Amos begins by calling the people "fat cows" because they are so pampered and are not reflective about any of the hardships they have been through. They just call to their spouses to "bring me more" food and drink and whatever else while they lie around and think of resuming business as usual. They do not realize that their hardships: plagues and sickness, drought and rain-less days on the land, blight and mildew on the crops, war and attacks by enemies---were calls from God to repentance. They simply wanted to petition God in their usual, superficial religious and self-serving ways and poof! It all be back to "normal." Kinda sounds like the time we're in now! "I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you would...