Amos 8:11-14 (11) Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord GOD, That 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. (12) They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it. (13) In that day the fair virgins And strong young men Shall faint from thirst. (14) Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, Who say, As your god lives, O Dan! And, As the way of Beersheba lives! They shall fall and never rise again. The first victims of this famine are the young. They are more susceptible because their parents failed to provide a solid foundation of truth. The young only know what the older generation has taught them. With anything remotely Christian being banished from public schools and colleges and ridiculed in the media, and with churches increasingly neglecting the Word of God, the youth are being supplied with a very weak or non-existent diet of truth. God created mankind with a spiritual capacity, and our minds naturally crave something to excite us, fill us, and give us answers. If Gods words are not sustaining the youth of the nation, something else will. The philosophy of materialism is firmly entrenched in these fertile minds, which are being fed all day yet starved of truth. An entire generation is falling for the line that there is no absolute truth, that everyones opinion is valid (unless that opinion is biblical), and that the only modern sin is to judge. All of these forms of idolatry are flourishing because Gods words are not being heard, and something else has taken their place. Amos 8:14 describes those who are so adamantly committed to their idolatry, who are so spiritually sick from malnourishment, that they will fall and never rise again.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:54:07 +0000
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