Skip to main content

Applying the book of Amos to Our Lives Today

So What? Applying the book of Amos to Our Lives Today

The book of Amos is unrelenting in its challenge to us and all other readers regarding our concern for the poor and those who suffer. Throughout the book, God repeatedly reveals his heart in this matter. God is indignant and impatient with those who enjoy living in luxury while the poor all around them suffer in poverty.

The truth that emerges for us is startling: God is very concerned for the poor and suffering, and he expects his people to have the same compassion. He desires his people to work hard to alleviate the suffering of others. He gets particularly upset with us when we separate ourselves from the plight of the poor and simply focus on enjoying our high standard of living.

 Likewise, if we disregard the suffering of others, God views our worship of him as hypocritical, and it does not please him. Many times we as Christians state our goal in life is to “know God.” The book of Amos helps us with this goal, for it reveals much about God’s heart and his desires for his people.

 What God wants from us is not hypocritical worship that is separated from everyday empathy and compassion. God wants us to care for people and to work to alleviate suffering. As we do this we can truly get to know him and worship him properly, for our hearts will then be in line with his.


Ref: The Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook - Old Testament

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome to Hapaspace

Welcome to Hapaspace In Ghana and Africa at large, it becomes very difficult to start up a business. Capital and other necessary prerequisites stand in the way of many talented people in Africa. Last year, I wrote an article on; contemporary Ghana on this same blog. The solution to most of our unemployment issues was to motivate the younger generation to be entrepreneurs. Hapaspace is a body which champions this course in Kumasi and will like to recommend it. Their business is to provide a serene working space for entrepreneurs who cannot afford a space and its furnishing. It comes with state of the art office and a hall for workshops, seminars and conference at a very affordable price. It is located at the heart of Kumasi ‘Adum’ opposite the STC yard in the same build with Tv3. Hapaspace also accommodates entrepreneurs in Kumasi every second Thursday of the month to share, network, train and refresh. Visit their site; http://hapaspace.com/ for details. You ca...
Post a Comment
Read more

Places to Educate Yourself Online for Free with Certificate

Places to Educate Yourself Online for Free –  with Certificate ALISON ALISON ( A dvance  L earning  I nteractive  S ystem On line) offers Free Online Courses, Workplace Skills, Interactive Education and Multimedia learning. With ALISON you can take online courses with certificate of completion or Diploma level, on a wide range of courses. Coursera Coursera offer high quality courses from top universities, for free to everyone to improve your resume, advance your career, expand your knowledge, and gain confidence. This online learning platform currently host courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania. Udemy Udemy’s goal is to disrupt and democratize the world of education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online. It seeks to dramatically change education by empowering millions of experts around the world to teach & share what the...
Post a Comment
Read more

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016 (number 10)

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   10. Sergey Brin   Net worth:   $37 billion Age:  42 Country:  US Industry:   Technology Source of wealth:  Self-made; Google Along with cofounder Larry Page, Sergey Brin helped facilitate Google's massive restructuring, which the company  announced in August . The move put Google under the auspices of a new holding company called Alphabet, run by Brin as president and Page as CEO. Google's other ventures, such as Nest and Google X, are now separate companies also under the Alphabet umbrella. The tech giant generated $66 billion in sales in 2014,   up more than $10 billion   from the year before. The restructuring allows Brin to focus on exploring inventive new "moonshot" projects and ideas. With top talent and an abundance of resources at its disposal, Alphabet has already made automated homes  and   self-driving cars  a reality. Brin, who emigrated f...
Post a Comment
Read more