Having been born in a dry and thirsty land my soul yearns for abundant water. Now, looking out on the Atlantic Ocean it is impossible to miss its relentless power and abundant supply of joy and food.

Unfortunately, I observe that most of my fellow vacationers are focused on themselves or their technology. Several sit, reading a book, with their feet touching the incoming tide’s edge. Others walk on that same edge reading email. It is strange because the main attraction, when your toes are touching the ocean should be the ocean. Right?

Amos 4:1-2 divides this strange phenomenon into two realities that will occur on the last, great day:

• For those who have arrogantly yearned for evil, it will be a burning oven.
• But for those who fear the Lord, it will be like a freed calf that had been penned up all its life.

Amos 4:1 (ESV) – “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Friend, where is your focus?