Thoughts for another day







September 20, 2010






Today's verse: Amos 8:11. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. (KJV)


(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)






Our Scripture today bodes a terrible thing for mankind: that God will send a famine of His Word! Why does God say this and what do we understand from it? For that we need to go to the basics of men on earth, whose evil intent has always been to sideline God and have other happenings or persons or phenomena as the cause of things on earth, belittling God, giving Him no importance. You may equate it to a human king who does all for his subjects but no one acknowledges his role in the good that comes of all his work. How will this king feel; terrible no? How then will God feel who created us; at least the human king didn't create us. And yes, God appointed the earth for our habitation and after doing all this, we reject Him and His Word!






God has also ordained all things on earth for our benefit and told us we should reign over them. Now because of all the insults that men give God we have in our Scripture that men are to be ignorant of His Word. What a calamity will that be. We'll be left completely clueless about what is to happen for God will close our ears, eyes and our beings to His Word and His work.






Then all things for us will seem automatic and self made, just like it is for the atheists. For them it's by chance that things came to be; whereas for us it came to be by the Spirit of God. They don't know what will happen tomorrow; we know that no matter what happens we're in the hands of our God who is our loving Father. We're secure because we have an Almighty Father whose hand is over us to protect and guide us. But this knowledge will be taken away from us when God closes our eyes to Scripture. My friend therefore I tell you, hold Scripture in your heart so that when God closes you to His Word, your soul will sing His praises for His Word will never move from your heart and you will do His work.