Amos hears God decline Israel's worship today, songs, assemblies, offerings, all of it, because of what ran alongside it. His alternative has marched through history ever since: let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.

God is not choosing justice over worship. He is refusing worship that dams the river. Check your tributaries today.

Amos never asked Israel to cancel church. He asked them to unclog the river, because worship was flowing in while the courts sold the poor, and God refuses to be serenaded over the sound of injustice. The songs He loves are the ones justice can sing along with.

Thyatira and Sardis got the same audit from the risen Jesus, deeds weighed against tolerations, reputations held up to reality. Psalm 130 is where every honest audit lands: if You kept records, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness. Let mercy received become justice practiced. That is the river running clean.