What’s your ‘plumb line’?

What’s your ‘plumb line’?

Amos 7:7-8

Thus He showed me, and behold, the LORD STOOD UPON A WALL WITH A PLUMB LINE, with a PLUMB LINE in His hand.

[PLUMB LINE = a tool used to determine whether or not something is perfectly vertical – upright, perfectly straight. It provided a standard against which one could measure what he has built.]

And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A PLUMB LINE.

Then said the Lord, Behold, I AM SETTING A PLUMB LINE AS A STANDARD in the midst of My people Israel. [God will not condemn, without having first made clear the standard by which He judges]

I will not pass by and spare them any more [because He has clearly given the standard to measure by  – He does not overlook their wrong-doings].

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Pray the Word:

Lord, You have given us the PLUMB LINE of Your Word that provides the standard by which everything is measured - our actions, deeds, works, thoughts, intentions, etc. How upright and straight we think we are, or proclaim ourselves to be, means nothing to You . . . . . . . it’s always determined by how VERTICAL WE ARE TO YOUR WORD. We want to delight in measuring ourselves by its standard.