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Amos 7:7-8
“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.’”
There is a standard.
If you travel to Coventry, in England, and go into the modern Cathedral there, you will see a mural of the city with a plumb line over it and a reference to this Scripture. (It was there when I used to go there.)
A few years ago, we had an extension built on our home and guess what? Yes, the builder used a plumb line to make sure the verticals were true.
Our ‘problem’, like that of Israel, is that we want to ‘move or remove the plumb line’. Society ‘knows’ what is right and wrong but there are those who are determined to undermine society by moving the plumb line. The plumb line is old-fashioned, out of date or too restrictive. ‘We’ no longer want to be governed by that. We have ‘progressed’ from there.
But have we? Remove the plumb line and society becomes crooked and over balances. The trouble is that once we discard ‘the truth’, we have nothing left to keep ourselves in check and our society collapses like a pack of cards, just like a building which has been built ‘off’ the vertical. It starts with a small deviation but ends way off, looking more and more like the ‘Tower of Pisa’.
So, today, we start by allowing divorce for incompatibility and end up ‘for any cause.’ We allow abortions to take place up to two weeks from conception and then extend and extend the period, initially for health reasons, then for any inconvenience. The ‘victim’ is still dead, whether we call it abortion, manslaughter or murder.
Remember Belshazzar saw a hand-writing on the wall? He was weighed in the balances and found wanting (see Daniel 5).
Today, there is a plumb line over every nation and every life. God is looking on, and just as surely as Israel was judged, so shall the nations be and so shall we. God is neither powerless nor blind. One day every one of us will be brought to the Judgement Seat: Those who have rejected Christ, to the Awesome White Throne (see Revelation 20:11-12); those who trust in Him, to the Judgement Seat of Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:10).
There we will also be judged for what we have done on earth. Sobering thought, isn’t it? And guess what? It is also a ‘Ring of Truth’!
Can I encourage you to take ‘time out’ sometime soon, if not today, and just realign your life back with The Plumb Line?
So you can walk up straight and true amongst this crooked generation?
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