NOTES for Amo 8:11-12

Surprising gift of God - it is the thirst of the word of the Lord. Sooner or later in the life of man, comes a moment, when God's word becomes extremely necessary. One should not say that it is not necessary another time, but there are special moments, when the need in God's word becomes unbearable. And the Lord says that people will seek the word - but will not find. Why? Does God send thirst and don’t make it quench?

No, but rather often man goes so far away from Him, turns away so diligently that just doesn’t understand, where to seek what his soul is thirsty of. And this thirst remains mostly unquenched - but man persuades himself of having already quenched the thirst with something very useful and accurate... Yes, the Lord can send thirst - but He respects our freedom and does not impose to us the means of its appeasement. And it is not obligatory to walk, to roam all over the world, because we already have His word - quite as the Israeli people in the time of the prophet Amos had it.