SEEK GOOD IN YOUR LIFE AND NOT EVIL - THAT IS, AND SEEK NOT EVIL

Amo 5:14  
Seek good and not evil-- and live! You talk about GOD, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies, being your best friend. Well, live like it, and maybe it will happen. 

Amos 5:14

Seek good and not evil - that is, and “seek not evil.” Amos again takes up his warning, “seek not Bethel; seek the Lord.” 
Now they not only “did evil,” but they “sought” it diligently; they were diligent in doing it, and so, in bringing it on themselves; they sought it out and the occasions of it. People  “cannot seek good without first putting away evil, as it is written, ‘cease to do evil, learn to do well’ Isa_1:16-17.” “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.” He bids them use the same diligence in seeking good which they now used for evil. Seek it also wholly, not seeking at one while good, at another, evil, but wholly good, and Him who is Good. “He seeks good, who believes in Him who saith, ‘I am the Good Shepherd’ John_10:11.”

That ye may live - In Him who “is the Life; and so the Lord, the God of hosts shall be with you,” by His holy presence, grace and protection, “as ye have spoken.” Israel looked away from the sins whereby he displeased God, and looked to his half-worship of God as entitling him to all which God had promised to full obedience. : “They gloried in the nobleness of their birth after the flesh, not in imitating the faith and lives of the patriarchs. So then, because they were descended from Abraham, they thought that God must defend them. Such were those Jews, to whom the Saveour said, “If ye were Abraham’s seed, ye would do the works of Abraham” John_8:39; and His forerunner, ‘think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham for our father’ Mat_3:9.” They wished that God should abide with them, that they might “abide in the land” 

Psa_37:3, but they cared not to abide with God.