This week I've been working on our upcoming message series, "Wake Up," and I rediscovered an old Jon Foreman song. I admit it's a tad awkward, but I find it incredibly powerful and convicting. It's rooted pretty clearly in Amos 5, especially vv 21-24:
“21 I hate all your show and pretense—the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
22 I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.
23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.
May God never find us guilty of reducing worship to something we do instead of a reflection of who and Whose we are.
What do you think?
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