Amos 9:19-15 - Paul - 02/08/2026

Being affected by reading the book of Amos.

It's really helped me, and I was thinking during the week, what are the lessons that I've learned through Amos? How has it spoken to me? And I think that it challenges our attitudes.

I realize that there are some attitudes that I can no longer have if I take the book of Amos seriously.

For example, I can no longer look at someone, if you take Amos seriously, and look at them and go, "Not my problem." You know, the, the, the temptation that we have to look at difficult situations and go, "Not my problem." Now, I'm not saying that we have to go into every situation, but we're tempted to look at difficult situations and go, "Not my problem." But the reason we can't is because God has made us his problem.

You know, when we were apart from him, when we wanted nothing to do with him, he stepped into our problems and he has come to our rescue.

I realized that studying the book of Amos, I can't justifiably look at someone and say, "I don't care," and I know I don't care enough.

But you can say, "I don't care," because God has chosen to care for us, and he cares for the vulnerable as we see in the book of Amos.

And we can't say, "It's their own fault." You know, the, the temptation that we have when people's situation is difficult to go, "Well, it's their own fault.

They messed up." And the reason that we can't do that is because we messed up.

We went astray.

We ruined our own lives.

We were living in emptiness, and God came to rescue us.

And so when I look at the book of Amos and I think about the fact that God loves the vulnerable, because that's what you see in the book of Amos, I say, "But God loved me in my vulnerability, and now I must love other people in their vulnerability with the love that I've received from him." Is that true for us, too? First thing I wanna say about the book of Amos...