Today’s Thought “The Rabbit’s Foot” G. Ward

Amos 5: ²¹ “I hate, I reject your festivals, nor do I delight in your festive assemblies. ²² Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; and I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fattened oxen. ²³ Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.

 

The corruption and moral decay of the Prophet Amos’ Day would mimic America now and while we’ve been given a charge as believers – to reproduce the message of Christ (the only assurance of peace while chaos persists), we, like Israel rely on political resolve to create an environment the Lord Jesus Himself, nor His apostles would witness under Caesar Augustus or Nero. While political science is most interesting – it lacks cohesion and whereas believer’s identification exists in Christ as Proven Leader of their lives – divisions and quarrels shouldn’t be named among us (*1 Cor.1:10).

Our being convinced onto postures/perspectives that lack eternal implication (and are ever-evolving), violates faith in God. Moreover, Idolatry is more thought of as one purports graven images as miraculous to perceive (including implicit trust of systems and people – cf.*Col.3:5-8) and while some of my generation and before carried a “rabbit’s foot” for luck, the carrier may be convinced, but the rabbit is prone to miseries – while limping.