In John Christopher’s 1956 novel, “No Blade Of Grass,” a destructive virus attacks the grasses of the world. In a matter of months, the world is plunged into famine along with its brutal companion, violence. People begin by fighting, then killing for food.<\/p>\n
The novel depicts a scene that has been lived out in the real world in recent famines, and is terrifying when seen on various television news networks. Unless we have experienced true famine first-hand, we can only imagine what it’s like.<\/p>\n
The prophet Amos spoke of a different kind of famine. He called it a famine of “hearing the words of the Lord” (Amos 8:11). While a lack of food can lead to disease and death, a famine of the Word can produce eternal consequences (cf. 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).<\/p>\n
Without access to God’s Word, we lack wisdom for life and the message of eternal life in Christ (Jeremiah 10:23; 1 Peter 1:3-4). As Christians, we need “the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:2). We should identify with the prophet when he said, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart” (Jeremiah 15:16).<\/p>\n
Brethren, the world is starving for God’s truth (John 17:17). He alone can satisfy the spiritual needs of the human heart. Let’s help fill their hearts by sharing His Word today! (Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).<\/p>\n
\nGive us, O Lord, a strong desire
To look in Your Word each day;
Help us to hide its truths in our heart,
Lest from His path our feet would stray.<\/em><\/strong> Bosch<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In John Christopher’s 1956 novel, “No Blade Of Grass,” a destructive virus attacks the grasses of the world. In a matter of months, the world is plunged into famine along with its brutal companion, violence. People begin by fighting, then killing for food. The novel depicts a scene that has been lived out in the … Continue reading “A Different Kind Of Famine – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}