Pressed Under

 May 31, 2023- Morning Bible Reading and Meditation - Amos 2KJV

[13] Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. 

[14] Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: 

[16] And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

Words to ponder for today: 

Pressed Under

The sinning people of GOD have been a heavy burden for The LORD. 

He felt that He is pressed down because of the heaviness carrying the sins of His people. 

Righteous are sold for silver and poor are being traded for a pair of shoes, and the worst one: the father and son lie down intimately with one woman.. a gruesome sin, abominable in the sight of The Holy LORD. 

And because of their lawlessness, their strength failed, their courage stammered and their courage have gone that they fled from the face of their enemies. 

Our generation today is getting from bad to worse, and it is worsen because of these things: 

• Materialism- they value money than righteousness 

• Masochism- abusing the poor and weak and put them under subjection or to be trodden under their feet.

• Moral Degradation - sexual impurity, fornication, adultery, bestiality and transgenderism almost have overtaken the mind of all human beings, making everything accepted by the majority, forcefully push through the throat to have it swallowed up by the innocent mind; worst thing, it creeps subtlety even to the mind of them who are redeemed by the precious blood of The LORD. 

Let all who are called and was cleansed by the blood of The LORD be reminded everyday, so that none of us will fall to the same error, which become the heaviness of the heart of GOD. 

Knowing this that if we continue sinning, we to have taken part to pressed under our Loving LORD and Savior  JESUS CHRIST, who have purchased us with His own blood. 

Let us all be always reminded by these words of Apostle Paul:

2 Timothy 3:1-5 KJV

“[1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

[2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 

[3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

 [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 

[5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

And let all who still holding on to the truth hold fast, as Apostle Paul also keep reminding in his epistle to 2 Timothy 1:13-14 KJV

“[13] Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 

[14] That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.”

Let the face of GOD and our Loving LORD and Savior JESUS CHRIST shine on us. 

 

Amen! 

Amos 2:1-16 KJV

[1] Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: [2] But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: [3] And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord. [4] Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: [5] But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. [6] Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; [7] That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: [8] And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. [9] Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. [10] Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. [11] And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord. [12] But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. [13] Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. [14] Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: [15] Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself : neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself. [16] And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.