Amos 9

Day 1638

Persevere in Hope!

Amos 9

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, September 10.

 

One of the great themes of the Bible is hope! No matter how bad it gets, there is always a deep trust in God’s promises. Throughout the prophetic literature of the Old Testament, as often as God declared the impending judgment of sin for His people, He was promising to save them. In fact, by the time of Amos, God’s judgment of Israel was unavoidable. God’s chosen people had been repeatedly warned by the prophets, to include Amos, yet, in Amos 9:11-15, the prophet concluded his prophetic work with God’s unyielding promise of a future restoration:

 

“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, and wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old; that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by My name,” declares the Lord who does this. … “I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

 

God wants to rescue His children! It’s His character to desire that none should perish (2 Peter 3:9), and, like a loving parent, He can’t help Himself from wanting to give them yet another chance to return to Him. This is the perseverance of God at work throughout Israel’s history that keeps them as His chosen people to this day. Let me be clear, it’s not our perseverance that marks us as God’s chosen people, but His perseverance toward us! This is what it means to be secured in God’s covenantal love; not that we love God, but that He loves us and has demonstrated that love to us in Jesus Christ (1 John 4:10).

 

Seize the moment and persevere in hope! Never let go of God’s promises; wait upon the Lord and you will be saved (Isaiah 40:31).

 

God bless you!

 

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