Amos had no claim to fame.
However it is not food the people lack like we might expect bu.
Amos brings home the idea of a famine.
Amos called to speak at the time of national disunity; military superiority; economic prosperity and religious activity.
He was sent out from the south to bring the Lord\'s Message to Samaria in the Northern Kingdom.
Yet God called him out from a career of overseeing Herdsman.
Neither had he had any formal training to be a prophet.
He was not even a son of a prophet.
Amos had no claim to fame