The time is ripe, how will God bring His judgment upon Israel? History shows us that God used many avenues. Towards the end of the chapter Amos however focuses on one. “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. (11-12).
A famine of the word… God will shut His mouth and no longer speak to Israel.
Imagine living in a family where the Father refuses to speak. The one who loves and guides and protects and directs and helps and leads goes dormant, silent… This is part of God’s punishment… He withdraws His Words.
Words like ‘abandoned’ come to mind.
One really sad aspect of this is that at first the people weren’t even looking for it. They didn’t notice God had withdrawn His voice, and then they made up their own to ‘fill in’ for God. How sad.
A famine of God’s Word… Oh, Lord, may it never be so, in my life and in the life of my church. I fear, Lord, that there is a famine of Your Word in my world. But among your people, may it never be, Lord. May it never be. Amen and amen.
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