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Amos - Blind Spots
Brian Mashburn
May 8, 2011
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Blind Spots
This morning as I was pulling out of my driveway, my youngest son suddenly appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, in my side rearview mirror, running around from the back of my car. It startled me and I hit the brakes hard.
He opened the door with a smile, but I asked him where he was and why I couldn't see him. He told me he was hanging on to the back of car, below the window and standing on my bumper.
My heart jumped up into my throat, and he could see by the look on my face that he was about to "get it". With urgency and intensity, I explained to him the position he put himself in, the tragedy that could have happened, and that this was no laughing matter.
He was in my blind spot, but that wasn't what I was explaining to him. I was trying to open his eyes to the blind spot he had concerning the danger he was in.
With urgency and intensity, this is what Amos is trying to do with God's people Israel. He was trying to explain to them the tragic position they have put themselves in, with urgency and intensity, but unlike Jakin, they did not seem to "get it". Why? Because of their blind spots, and their unwillingness to see.
Today, let us try to do better, as we let this ancient oracle from God expose to us some potential blind spots of ours.