March 12th, 2018

Famine in the Land

 "And they came into the country of Moab and continued there."  Ruth 1:2

Elimelech and his family entered Moab due to the famine in Bethlehem Judah, the House of Bread and great Place of Praise.  How could this have happened in such a blessed land?  Why would there be a famine in the land?   There are many warnings in the Bible God gives us to not leave his commandments. Such as in 2 Chronicles Chapter 7-22.   Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers and embraced other gods a famine or calamity would come upon that land .  During the famine Elimelech convinced his family  that God was not providing in the House of Bread any longer and that they must move to Moab.  The book of Amos 8:11 wrote about a famine not in the sense of food, but of hearing the Word of God. 

We all experience times of (famine), spiritual dryness in our lives.  Times of difficulties.  It isn't the fact that we have a famine in our land, but what we are going to do with this famine.   Are we going to press into the Word even more or sojourn to another land?  

Sometimes in our spiritual walk, we feel like we are not hearing from God like we did before.  We had experienced the joy of praying and receiving answers immediately, but now it seems like we can barely breakthrough.  Bible Study used to seem so exciting, but not so much now.  We know we are experiencing spiritual dryness. 

Good news!  God has a cure for this spiritual dryness. Remain where you are and call upon His Glorious Name and He will answer.  He sees us through our dry times.  We come out better and more full of wisdom that before.  We have an exciting testimony to share and can praise the Lord for His goodness.  The Lord enables us to help others during their times of dryness.