Amos 5:21-24

The Message (MSG)

 ^21-24"I can't stand your religious meetings.
   I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions.
I want nothing to do with your religion projects,
   your pretentious slogans and goals.
I'm sick of your fund-raising schemes,
   your public relations and image making.
I've had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.
   When was the last time you sang to me?
Do you know what I want?
   I want justice—oceans of it.
I want fairness—rivers of it.
   That's what I want. That's all I want.

I seen this on friend's Facebook status today. We really do have a talent for making things a lot more complicated than they actually need to be. We feel great about ourselves because we attend church and small group meetings yet forget why we are actually there? When was the last time the only things we sought for were Justice and Fairness for others? When we worship do we get more caught up in what instruments are being used than we do about giving glory to our Father in Heaven?

We need to strip it down. Our lives. Our faith. We need to get back to what it is all about. We need to get back to Jesus.