Advent Daily Lectionary Readings
Isaiah 12:2-6
Amos 8:4-12
2 Corinthians 9:1-15
Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the
needy! You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious
festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out
grain with dishonest measures and cheat the buyer with dishonest scales. And
you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave
poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals. Now the LORD has
sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel: "I will never forget
the wicked things you have done! The earth will tremble for your deeds, and
everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it
will heave up, then sink again. "In that day," says the Sovereign
LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it
is still day. I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your
singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to
show your sorrow--as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will
be!
"The time is surely coming," says the Sovereign
LORD, "when I will send a famine on the land--not a famine of bread or
water but of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from border to border searching for the word of the LORD, but they
will not find it. Amos
8:4-12
The time is
surely coming. That time is a famine for the
word of God—people will be hungry for God’s word—searching for it in vain. God
was displeased with the people of Israel and so He removed Himself—and His word—from
their lives. They were looking for a prophet to teach them, but they did not
find one. The time is coming, as Matthew Henry explained, that there won’t be
any ministers to explain the word of the Lord to the people. How have you felt
when you are really looking for something…maybe even something spiritual—but you
just couldn’t find it? How discouraging.
What does this teach us? Be obedient to the Lord and He will not
abandon us—just as He has promised. But if we neglect to obey and displease
Him, then we can look forward to being discouraged as we search in vain for the
Lord and His word.
Prayer ~ Lord Jesus, help us to be
obedient to You and to Your commandments that we would live in a way that is
pleasing to You.
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text by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless otherwise noted.
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