Text: Amos 8:1-14
In his fourth vision, Amos sees a basket of summer fruit. In Hebrew, “summer fruit” and “end” are similar so the vision shows that Israel’s “end has come” (v.2).
It can also mean that the summer sun has ripened the fruit, meaning that Israel was ripe or has reached a peak for judgement. And one of the reasons, for this is that people had no desire for God’s Word whenever a prophet would bring the same (vv. 11-13). Now time is coming when people will not find the Word of God (v.12); the Lord will not grant them that opportunity to find His Word. Without the Word of God, there is anarchy because all answers we look for to solve all problems are in the Bible. Unfortunately, in most cases, we look for answers from all places, except the Bible! We need to repent of this. The first point to begin with is to accept Christ, the Word of God, that became flesh (John 1:14).
Meditate on verses 5-6. What is God teaching you in these verses? How are you going to respond to them?
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, forgive me for being dishonest many times. Amen.