Good Morning Friends,
“This is what he showed me: The Lord was
standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his
hand. And the LORD asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’ ‘A plumb line,’ I
replied. Then the Lord said, ‘Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people
Israel; I will spare them no longer.’” (Amos 7:7-8)
Carpenters used to use plumb lines and
perhaps some still do. Attach a weight to the end of a string and then put the
other end at the top of the wall and let the weight hang down. That’s a way for
the carpenter to be sure he gets the wall straight up and down. He doesn’t want
the top to tip in or out. It’s also a way to check houses that have already
been built to see if its walls are still straight, or if they’ve slipped
through the years.
A plumb line is a test to see if things are
as they are supposed to be, as they were designed to be.
God has a plumb line, too – a standard He
uses to determine if people are the way way He desires them to be.
When God put His standard up against the
people of Israel it showed they had slipped from where they had been, from what
they had been designed to be. God had formed them. He had designed His people
to be pure, different from the rest of the world. But they’d fallen from the standard,
they were no longer plumb.
I wonder what God’s plumb line would show
about His church today? He formed the church. He designed it to be what He
wanted it to be. If He were to put His standard up against the church now would
He find that it has slipped through the years?
Or, maybe God should put a plumb line on your
life. What would He find there?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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