I’m sitting here wishing that I’d gone to all those chapel services last year when they worked through the book of Amos. (Was that last year?) I’m supposed to be teaching on it tomorrow morning, and so far I’ve got about…nothing.

My notes from last spring’s class claim that “Amos is all about Justice, righteousness, and the House of David.” Here’s the bottom line though:

I will bring back my exiled people Israel, they will plant vineyards and drink their wine, they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them. (Amos 9:13)

Despite Israel’s injustice and infidelity, God was going to send them into exile. The Day of the Lord was going to be a rather unpleasant time for God’s chosen people–and yet, He is faithful and infinitely full of grace, and promises that he will restore them. Don’t we worship an amazing God?