The reason the preacher Jim Casy lost the fire that he once had for God made a lot of sense to me as I came across it in chapter four of Grapes of Wrath. Not only did this sort of thing happen to the people back then but it happens to our own culture now too.
The problem is that too many people in those days and now need everything to be entirely way too theatrical. In order for something to amake a huge impact on their lives people think it needs to be some kind of miracle raining down from the sky. Even people in church today think that in order to totally turn their lives around and follow Jesus and God from that day forward it needs to be because of some huge sign froma bove that spells it out for them. The problem is that the world can't just constantly be experiencing all these miracles, otherwise they wouldn't be miracles they'd just be everyday occurences. And that is where faith comes in. You have to have faith that something is real and true and worthy of your time even if it is not spelled out for you in the sky. If it were it would not be called faith, it would be as simple as opening your eyes.
The issue is that some preachers are the type who think they were called by some huge miraculous sign, or they think they are supposed to be supplying these occurences to people. Unfortunately this cannot happen and it makes sense why this causes people to burn out and lose their faith. They know that everything they are doing and saying is phony and just to gibe the people what they want. So even while they are saving other people their own souls are being driven further and further away from God through hypocrisy and deceit. They know it is not real and that slowly eats them away inside. Eventually they crack and realize that they can deceive people no longer.
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