Reading Amos and Obadiah! Wow. You take very seriously the suffering of the least of these. You reserve judgement for those who take advantage of their day of disaster. You wage destruction on the tall and lofty places we build in our land/lives. They are our security and identity and you are disgusted with it. And dare I say, so jealous you would destroy us. To destroy the idol we love, destroys us, reduces us to nothing and then we can see you there all along…eyes so pure looking at us and actually seeing us. Wanting us, enough to put us in a deep pit, that you are deeper still.
You detest saying one thing and doing another. It is not something you can really even look at, is it?
There is grace and mercy. But not for sin that is premeditated and warned of. But this is actually one of the primary attributes that makes you as beautiful as you are. You do not suffer sin in our lives when we know better. You do not want us to put ouselves on a pedalstool and believe we are justified to sin.
You are glory, light, love, splendor, majesty. You are a king. We know almost nothing of what light and love are. Even though we have you, we do not see you or know you. You do not want us to turn from you, and turn to ourselves. Simply because you love us and want us. And so when we make lifestyles of denying you, your wrath is stirred. And this is a lovely thing. When the king of kings is stirred up in wrath, motivated from jealousy, we will see spectacular things in our lives and in the earth. The whole thing will turn upside down. When we put you back on the throne, things stand up right again. It just is.
