Day 117: January 29, 2026 – Amos 1-5 and Psalm 25

Amos is a prophet who really spent his entire career foretelling the doom that was about to take place on a day that most people looked forward to: the Day of the Lord. He reminds folks that the Day of the Lord was not some kind of party that we should be anticipating, but rather a day of judgment and separation and even death and division. We have to wait for a long time in Amos until we get some Scripture that is fairly well known. We see that in chapter 5 when the prophet states: Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an overflowing stream.

Psalm 25 is much more familiar, in fact, we have a VBS song that goes with it, and it is called to you O Lord. Just a reminder that when we turn our back on God, God will pursue us, but that doesn’t eliminate the repercussions of our sin. Sometimes we think that because God pursues us our sin is not that big of a deal, it is.