Famine In The Land

Over the past several months Brenda and I have visited numerous churches when I have not been preaching. What we have discovered has been downright disheartening. 

We visited one church on two consecutive Sundays. Though the pastor had a reputation for being a Bible teacher we literally did not open our Bibles once either Sunday nor did he preach from a Biblical text. He gave a history lesson on the reformation. I came to worship hungry in my soul but left still hungry. 

At another church a pastor read a Bible text. At least we opened our Bibles. He then preached a message with not one point from the text. The verse we read was not expounded. 

We also went to a worship service where they were starting the first service of a revival. By the time the announcements and music were done the guest evangelist only had 15 minutes to preach. I felt badly for him. Suffice it to say there was no revival. There were meetings but no revival. 

We are living in a day of famine. Not for food at least in the physical sense. There is a famine for hearing the word of the Lord. 

Amos 8:11-12 (ESV)
¹¹  “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.
¹²  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.

Lord help us.