NOTES for Amo 8:1-14
Twenty-eight centuries have passed, and we see clearly that, although there is hunger and thirst in the world, the fate of the world is not determined by this, but by where, and in what, a person seeks the truth. And again we wander from sea to sea, roaming now in the East and now in the West, conducting deadly experiments on ourselves and on others, deifying any fruit of human reason and then becoming disillusioned. We are driven by a thirst to hear the words of the Lord, while what has already been given to us we do not accept. We repeat, "Not by bread alone..." as a proverb, having already forgotten where it is said and what is said next there. We seek and, just as it is written, do not find, because it is best to seek where it is, not where it is not!