IN THE BEGINNING…THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012
THE PLUMBLINE AND THE RULER
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall
made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. Amos
7:7
Every work
constructed for the glory of God must be in-line, upright, sturdy, stable and able
to withstand the storms. We are a people who follow the rule of God; we are led
by the Spirit of God who leads in the way of righteousness. As long as we continue to walk in the way of
the Lord, waiting at our post for His word and His command, we shall prosper
and have good success. Every ruler of
God’s people must be measured and found solid, upright, able and ready to be
established.
God’s purpose has always been to design an upright
people, measured by the
rule of righteousness. In the New
Testament the Law (of righteousness) has been written in our hearts. “For this
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their
hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they
shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the
first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away”
(Hebrews 8:10-13). "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should
no place have been sought for the second" (Hebrews8:7).
Today, let us stand “upright” and see the salvation of God.
