11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the LORD,
but they will not find it. Amos 8
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the LORD,
but they will not find it. Amos 8
I was immersed in Scripture until July this year, since I was attempting to Blog Through the Bible.
I had gone through a rough time emotionally last year, and turned to Scripture to put myself together. I was inspired by how Martin Luther was delivered from his religious perfectionism and guilt by lecturing through the Bible as a Catholic seminary professor at Wittenberg University (thereby stumbling upon the great truth that a man is saved by grace, through faith alone).
Scripture rescues him again from adrenal fatigue, nervous exhaustion, fear and depression–what we would today call a nervous breakdown–through his project of translating Scripture in the Wartburg.
I probably went at my Blog Through the Bible project too whole-heartedly, and was exhausted by July. My nerves needed a break from the project, though I didn’t realise the break would stretch to four and a half months!
For the last three months, I have felt an almost physical longing to be soaked in scripture. I have been feeling famished for it. We’ve been playing it in the car, and in rooms I tidy.
It’s the longest time I have gone without daily study of scripture in my almost 23 years as a Christian.
Well, it’s Advent, the start of the Church Year, and I am celebrating it by blogging through the Gospel of John–just looking at the words of Jesus. I will be sharing it on this blog, and here’s the first post.
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Anita says
Hi Carol, I just prayed that you may have less anxiety and peace this Christmas,
Anita 🙂
Carol says
Hi Anita,
What a great idea. Hope time allows me to join you.
Thinking hard about “what I want”
Problems solved, medical conditions of family members healed, less anxiety, family all walking with Christ…to sum it up…PEACE.
Carol