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An Ever-Flowing Stream
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- Grace for All
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- Jul 23, 2026
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- 344
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Summary
Amos 5:24 Let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. The Hebrew word that we translate justice appears over 400 times in the Old Testament. That’s a lot. It seems like God and the prophets are really concerned about justice and, more importantly, about those who have been mistreated and not received justice. Chief among these are the widows, orphans, and the poor. The prophets saw how the powerful took advantage of them. Amos, in today’s scripture, proclaimed to the rich and powerful that God sees how unjust their actions have been toward the powerless and the time has come for a reckoning. To share what God’s justice is going to feel like, Amos uses the image of water. When he used this image, I am sure he was thinking about the dry wadis that crisscrossed the land. These dry stream beds would come alive with a rushing torrent of water after a rain. The water was forceful and many times destructive. We have witnessed the power of water in our area recently when heavy rains and hurricanes have released torrents of flood waters. They have destroyed property and unfortunately taken lives. Amos’ vision came true for his listeners because shortly after these words were spoken the people of Israel were conquered by the Babylonians and those in power were taken into exile. To them it must have seemed like a mighty destructive torrent, like when the wadis filled with rushing water. Today I am thinking about the more gradual power of water. I think of the Wear’s Valley just south of us. It is one example of where a broad fertile valley was formed over thousands of years as water eroded the hard stone it was flowing through. There might have been an occasional cataclysmic flood, but generally the valley was formed through the slow, continual…