Most of Amos is
full of warning. But when we get to the end we see the promise of re-creation.
After the darkness of judgment, there is the light of hope.
Our God is a kind and gracious Father
and is also holy. He disciplines for disobedience. He even cuts off those who
steadfastly refuse His grace and mercy and turn to other gods, who are no gods,
for their comfort and salvation.
But He never totally cuts off salvation
from the Earth. And now in a new era, in a better covenant with better
promises, God remembers His covenant, for God so loves the world, and He restores
the years the locust has eaten. Where there was nothing, there is plenty. Where
there was famine and death, there is the bread of life. Where there was drought
and deadly thirst, there are rivers of living water, rivers flowing with the
wine of the New Covenant.
We
partake now of God’s kindness to us in Jesus for our God has restored us to His
favor through the precious blood of His own dear Son.
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