There is a famine predicted in the book of Amos. Not a famine of food but in the day when it will come he proclaims, “The days are coming, declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘when I will send a famine throughout the land- not a famine of food or thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord (Amos 9:11).” We are living in this day that Amos spoke of, there is a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord. We have many excuses, but there is a famine in the church, a famine of hearing God’s Word. Even the church has lost its passion for the Word of God. How can we live a life of faith and power and not be in the Word of God on a daily basis? Yet we forsake the Word of God and have consequently lost our passion as the body of Christ, our passion for the Word of God.
There are many reasons that we have lost our passion for the Word of God. One of these is that we live in a very busy world and it is easy to lose track of the truly essential things in life. It seems that almost universally around the world our human tendency is to place our value in how busy; we are how many things we “have to do”. We say to ourselves, “I’m important, you can tell, look at all the things I have to do.” In placing our value in how many things we have to do we are not being transformed but being conformed to the world’s standards and judgement of worth. God is calling us back to him and in doing this he calls us to his Word.
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