Woe to them that are at ease in Zion – Amos 6:1
We have good jobs, and food in the refrigerator, a little money, good family and friends. We’re blessed.
We can worship where we please and if by chance we get upset with someone in the church, we can just take our membership and go home.
We don’t have to pump water, cut wood for fire, hunt for our food or get up with the chickens to do chores.
We are so blessed. But..
Amos 6:1 says, “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.”
Ease is leisure, freedom from anxiety or bodily effort. Being at ease is being relaxed and carefree.
Amos had a warning against corrupt religious practices for God’s people in the Northern Kingdom. In the midst of the Golden Calf set up in Bethel, the people of God felt secure in their sacrifices to the Golden Calf while at the same time calling on the name of the Lord.
They were keeping up with the world while still playing church. All they had to do was to seek God, repent and pray.
Woe to them that are at ease. The present sinful ease ends in future woes. Woe is used as a threat of some pending event.
God is warning us today against corrupt religious and moral practices, i.e., failing to pray, fornication and adultery.
We’ve stopped the war against sin. We’re at ease. We refuse to fight for the truth or for what is right. We can’t fight this fight with a remote control or Gameboy in our hand or in the buffet line.
The answer is not in cable TV or Facebook but the answer is in our prayer life. Prayer does not bring God down to us but brings us up to God. The darkness of the devil surrounds those who neglect to pray.
Pray for the salvation of your children and home. Pray for the holiness of your church and this nation.
Woe to us all, lest we forget. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call on Him while He is near.
So the word of the Lord from Isaiah 32:9, came to me saying, Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice, ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
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This is a powerful message, but it’s not completed. I would like to have the completed message. Thank you.