Amos 8-9, Romans 5: 12-21, Psalm 107: 10-22
Amos 8: 11-12 (ESV)
“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.”
Verses 11 through 12 from Amos 8 is the prophet Amos telling
us that not hearing the words of the lord is worse than not having enough to
eat and drink. And even when we seek the word of the Lord, we will not find it.
I was moved when I read these verses from Amos 8 because I had an experience
with losing thousands of dollars worth of lectures I bought and paid for when I
recently transferred them to a new computer drive. I was devastated by the loss
because of the money I had spent, but I also realized that this was a lesson
from God. I had been so worried about losing these physical things that I had
collected, and when I did lose them, I realized that it wasn’t the worse thing
that could have happened to me. I had lost money for sure, but I knew I could
with time rebuy these lectures again. God taught me that losing physical things
is nothing compared to losing my faith in God.