Imagine a world with no balm for wounds, hurts, and pain. This is the spiritual condition Amos lays out for a fallen Israel. How hopeless this appears. Many in our world today choose to numb their pain by seeking to fill the emptiness, as if there is no balm. Economically strapped people buying cases of beer tell a story of looking for balm for inner pain. Even worse, drug addiction tells a sadder story. Amos asks...
"Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing
for the wound of my people?"
The beautiful hymn tells a different story. There is a balm in Gilead. We can be set free of inner turmoil and the grace of God can heal our pain. There is a balm in Gilead!
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