318. No Uncleanness or Famine
Ezekiel 36:29, 30 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
The Lord promises no famine. How can He do that? For there have very often been famines across the world, even in the days of the Bible. Everyone knows what it is like to be hungry, and many people have learned to know what it is like to starve during a famine. Can God promise no famine for you? Yes, He absolutely can if He is talking about spiritual hunger and thirst.
When Jesus came He promised and He brought life, and life more abundantly. He provided abundant bread and fish for the multitudes on two separate occasions. He gave the disciples a multitude of fish to catch on two separate occasions. He turned water into wine, and more and better wine than the guests ever had. For what purpose did He do these provision miracles? He did it to show in graphic terms that the fertile kingdom and the abundant life come to us through faith in Jesus. We can be sure that we will never suffer a spiritual famine. We may, and we should, get hungry and thirsty for spiritual filling and refreshment, but thank God, the Word of the Gospel is always available. If a man becomes hungry and thirsty for spiritual food, the Lord will make sure it is provided in His way and time. No one who wants the Gospel will be left without access to it. The Holy Spirit will always make sure the Church is doing its mission work, as Jesus commanded.
He also promises to save us from our uncleannesses. Sin makes us empty and hungry, and it also defiles and pollutes the soul (not to mention the world around us). As we live in a filthy world the soul becomes defiled and corrupted. Most people get used to it, and they think that’s just the way life is. But the Word tells us that is not the way it is supposed to be. There is a better way, a clean way: believe and receive the Blood of Christ for cleansing. Once we have become morally clean and spiritually satisfied, there is always more available. So we turn to Christ with His Word and Promise: we are cleaned and satisfied. No uncleanness. No famine.