For thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live: - Amos 5:4
The Israelites has forsaken the way of the Lord and God is angry with them thus this warning through prophet Amos to them.
To seek God is to live. For to seek God is to find Him, and God is Life and the Source of life. Forgiveness, grace, life, enter the soul at once. But the seeking is diligent seeking. : "It is not to seek God anyhow, but as it is right and meet that He should be sought, longed for, prayed for, who is so great, a Good, constantly, fervently, yea, to our power, the more constantly and fervently, as an Infinite Good is more to be longed for, more loved than all created good." The object of the search is God Himself.
"Seek Me," that is, seek God for Himself, not for anything out of Him, not for His gifts, not for anything to be loved with Him. This is not to seek Him purely. All is found in Him, but by seeking Him first, and then loving Him in all, and all in Him. "And ye shall live," first by the life of the body, escaping the enemy; then by the life of grace now, and the life of glory hereafter, as in that of the Psalmist, "your heart shall live who seek God" Psalm 69:32.
Forsaking the ways of the Lord is dangerous to you, you are on the path to death and destruction when you don't follow God's way.
I encourage you to seek God because it is then you can truly live.
I pray to wouldn't be destroyed. I pray you will seek God and live.
Thank God it's Friday, Good Morning and do have a fantastic friday.
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