"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)
Famine and Drought Of The Word Of God.
Famine and Drought Of The Word Of God.Dearest Mothers,
Can you imagine what it would be like for a person to be wandering in a desert looking for water to satisfy his unquenchable thirst? I think it would be agonizing and extremely frightening to think of the reality, without that life saving water death is certain.
But let's think of this person again, wandering and staggering sometimes even falling... when suddenly at the next turn, a fresh deep pond of spring water! The thirsty one looks on in amazement and says, "Oh I heard about this water, but it's not exactly what I wanted, I want something a little more exciting and thrilling something more to my liking. I don't really think this water will satisfy my needs." So instead of drinking he goes on, passing it by, to his death.
It is utterly foolish to pass by a life giving source, especially if it is the ONLY source of life!
Yet, dear mothers, that is what most people are doing. God warns us of the dearth that is coming, and is now come. It is a dearth for the Word of God. Oh one might refute or argue and say there are more Bibles today then in all the history of mankind... this is probably true, which makes this warning far more serious. It is a willing ignorance of the Word of God. People everywhere are choosing man's word over God's Word. Please consider this warning as a loving plea to battle for the truth of God's Word and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ask GOD to show you and teach you what He says, and forsake the false teaching of man, the humanists call their teaching the way of acceptance and love, when in truth it is the way of perversion and death.
I would like to shout this over the house tops! Mothers! Teach your children the Word of God!!! Drink of the deep clear living Water, let your children drink deeply as well... it is rejuvenating, it gives life and substance to us. Nothing else can satisfy, nothing else can sustain life, nothing else is worthy. The Gospel, The Living Word is what you and I need for life now and for all eternity.
Here is a very, very good explanation of Amos:11-12 from John Gill's commentary:
Now, to be deprived of hearing the Gospel is a spiritual famine, for that is food, bread, meat, milk, honey, yea, a feast; it is food that is savoury, wholesome, nourishing, satisfying, strengthening, and comforting; and when this is took away a famine ensues, as when a church state is dissolved, ministers are ordered to preach no more in such a place, or are scattered by persecution, or removed by death, and none raised up in their stead; or when error prevails, to the suppressing of truth: all which is done, or suffered to be done, for indifference to the word of God, unfruitfulness under it, and contempt of it, and, opposition to it; which is a dreadful case, when such a famine is; for the glory, riches, and light of a nation, are gone; bread for their souls is no more; and the means of conversion, knowledge, comfort, &c. cease; and people in course must die, for lack of these things; see Isa_3:1.
Can you imagine what it would be like for a person to be wandering in a desert looking for water to satisfy his unquenchable thirst? I think it would be agonizing and extremely frightening to think of the reality, without that life saving water death is certain.
But let's think of this person again, wandering and staggering sometimes even falling... when suddenly at the next turn, a fresh deep pond of spring water! The thirsty one looks on in amazement and says, "Oh I heard about this water, but it's not exactly what I wanted, I want something a little more exciting and thrilling something more to my liking. I don't really think this water will satisfy my needs." So instead of drinking he goes on, passing it by, to his death.
It is utterly foolish to pass by a life giving source, especially if it is the ONLY source of life!
Yet, dear mothers, that is what most people are doing. God warns us of the dearth that is coming, and is now come. It is a dearth for the Word of God. Oh one might refute or argue and say there are more Bibles today then in all the history of mankind... this is probably true, which makes this warning far more serious. It is a willing ignorance of the Word of God. People everywhere are choosing man's word over God's Word. Please consider this warning as a loving plea to battle for the truth of God's Word and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ask GOD to show you and teach you what He says, and forsake the false teaching of man, the humanists call their teaching the way of acceptance and love, when in truth it is the way of perversion and death.
I would like to shout this over the house tops! Mothers! Teach your children the Word of God!!! Drink of the deep clear living Water, let your children drink deeply as well... it is rejuvenating, it gives life and substance to us. Nothing else can satisfy, nothing else can sustain life, nothing else is worthy. The Gospel, The Living Word is what you and I need for life now and for all eternity.
Here is a very, very good explanation of Amos:11-12 from John Gill's commentary:
Now, to be deprived of hearing the Gospel is a spiritual famine, for that is food, bread, meat, milk, honey, yea, a feast; it is food that is savoury, wholesome, nourishing, satisfying, strengthening, and comforting; and when this is took away a famine ensues, as when a church state is dissolved, ministers are ordered to preach no more in such a place, or are scattered by persecution, or removed by death, and none raised up in their stead; or when error prevails, to the suppressing of truth: all which is done, or suffered to be done, for indifference to the word of God, unfruitfulness under it, and contempt of it, and, opposition to it; which is a dreadful case, when such a famine is; for the glory, riches, and light of a nation, are gone; bread for their souls is no more; and the means of conversion, knowledge, comfort, &c. cease; and people in course must die, for lack of these things; see Isa_3:1.
...for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
(Jeremiah 17:13)
Let us be serious about our spiritual walk with Jesus Christ. let us forsake the silly foolish attractions that satan means to use against us to keep us from reading the Word of God and from knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. Drink of the fountain of LIFE
Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
(John 4:13-14)
(John 4:13-14)
