Amos 7:7-8 ” This is what He showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. And the Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’ ‘A plumb line,’ I replied.”

This passage depicts God using a plumb line to measure Israel…symbolizing His righteous standard and impending judgment for their persistent sins. Now a plumb line was a weight at the end of a line used by builders to get an exact vertical alignment of walls straight up and down. God was using His plumb line to show just how far off His people had wandered, and was now holding them accountable for their continued corruption, injustice, and idolatry. But this plumb line also serves as a metaphorical call to Believers today for self-examination. We need to ask ourselves, are there areas of our lives that need to be brought back into realignment with God’s standards of truth, justice, righteousness, and moral integrity? For just as God never changes, His plumb line will always be straight by way of His Word.