"Yet You Did Not Return to Me"
"Yet You Did Not Return to Me"
Wednesday
"I gave you empty stomachs in every city, and lack of bread in every town; yet you did not return to me, declares the LORD. I also withheld the rain from you... yet you did not return to me, declares the LORD. I struck you with blight and mildew... yet you did not return to me, declares the LORD. I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt... yet you did not return to me, declares the LORD. I overthrew you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah... yet you did not return to me, declares the LORD."
— Amos 4:6-11 (ESV)
— Amos 4:6-11 (ESV)
Reflect:
Five disciplines, five refusals. God was not punishing for punishment's sake — He was calling His people home. The Hebrew word for "return," *shuv*, means to turn around and come back.
Five disciplines, five refusals. God was not punishing for punishment's sake — He was calling His people home. The Hebrew word for "return," *shuv*, means to turn around and come back.
Pray:
Is there a hardship right now that God may be using to call you back to Himself? Ask Him for the humility to turn, not just to endure.
Is there a hardship right now that God may be using to call you back to Himself? Ask Him for the humility to turn, not just to endure.
Today's Takeaway:
Discipline from God is never the absence of love — it is often the clearest evidence of it.
Discipline from God is never the absence of love — it is often the clearest evidence of it.
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