While I’m a little behind in my 5 Day Bible Reading Program, I continue plugging away. This morning, I came across these verses in the Book of Amos:

²¹ “I hate all your show and pretense—
    the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
²² I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings.
    I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.
²³ Away with your noisy hymns of praise!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
²⁴ Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice,
    an endless river of righteous living.

Amos 5:21-24 (NLT)

Or as another translation puts verse 21:

I hate, I despise, your feasts!
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:21 (CSB)

Got me thinking about how we can come to a point, individually and as a Church, to where our worship of the Lord can become like a stench to Him caused by:

• Habitual sin
• Ongoing disobedience
• A stinky/unrepentant heart

Not exactly a place I want to be.

What have you been reading, in the Bible, lately?