The blank page in your Bible

Have you ever noticed that page in your Bible between the Old and the New Testament? The blank one? The page without words?

What would you do if you opened your Bible one day and all the pages were blank? How would you feel if you couldn’t get a Bible? If you had no access to God’s Word?

In the Book of Amos, God gave this sobering prediction:

AM 8:11 "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.

God predicted that His people would experience a famine of His Word. And it happened. For 400 years, Israel experienced the awful silence of God. (It has come to be known as “The Silent Years,” and I picture it in my mind with that blank page at the end of the Old Testament in my Bible.)

For four centuries there was this huge gap in revelatory expression. But thankfully all of that would change with the birth of Jesus. After years of waiting, God was no longer mute. Ultimately, God turned the volume all the way up with Jesus, the Word made flesh!

Now, because of Jesus, there is no longer a famine of God’s Word. Which means that, these days, if we find ourselves spiritually famished, the problem is not on God's side; it is on ours. The problem is not on the sending end, but the receiving end.

The pages of our Bible are filled with life-giving words. Let’s not take them for granted.