The bible says there will be a day(s) when a strange famine will come upon the earth. This is not a famine of food but rather, a famine where God’s people will feel or think that God no longer speaks (see Amos 8.11-12). The ‘prophetic fork’ is in God and God is ‘done’. These thoughts of victimization often come when life has ganged up on us and we wonder if there will ever be peace again. The Apostle Paul writing hundreds of years later warned of these days by saying, ” … God has given them a spirit (an attitude) of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear…” (Romans 11:8).
In times like I just described, I have seen people that were moving so fast that they have actually moved past God (and what they thought were for very godly reasons). This frantic pace of life is not intentionally done but rather done without even knowing it. Some of God’s pilgrims have unknowingly: overestimated their spiritual maturity or discernment, underestimated the challenge that is before them and in so doing have failed to recognize that they have moved beyond ‘ear shot’ of God. When these three ideas come into play it is nearly certain that there has been: an ignoring of early warning signs that we are moving too fast, a slowly developing arrogance that believes, ‘I can get through this’ and ultimately, a disconnect from spiritual reality that results in the belief (lie!), 'God must not like me anymore'.
However, there is good news! The writer of Hebrews penned, "I give thanks to the Father, who has qualified YOU to share in the inheritance of the Saints in the Kingdom of Light." (Hebrews 6:11). God knowing we would have ‘hard of hearing days’ and ‘broken hearted nights’ God encourages us by saying, “…though the earth should change and the mountains slip into the heart of the sea; though waters roar and foam over us and the mountains quake….THERE IS a river whose streams make glad the city of God… God is in the midst of her (your pain amidst the silence), she (and YOU) will not be moved (see Ps. 46).
In the name of our Wonderful Counselor, your Mighty God, the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace (Is. 9.6) I say to you, TODAY, you are not hard of hearing! God has just spoken.
However, there is good news! The writer of Hebrews penned, "I give thanks to the Father, who has qualified YOU to share in the inheritance of the Saints in the Kingdom of Light." (Hebrews 6:11). God knowing we would have ‘hard of hearing days’ and ‘broken hearted nights’ God encourages us by saying, “…though the earth should change and the mountains slip into the heart of the sea; though waters roar and foam over us and the mountains quake….THERE IS a river whose streams make glad the city of God… God is in the midst of her (your pain amidst the silence), she (and YOU) will not be moved (see Ps. 46).
In the name of our Wonderful Counselor, your Mighty God, the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace (Is. 9.6) I say to you, TODAY, you are not hard of hearing! God has just spoken.
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