The Day of the Lord!

Reading:  Joel 1-3
My Verse:  2:12  "Therefore, also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowhip is restored]." 

Wow!  This little book of Joel is not so very little!    Joel speaks of the apocolyptic horror of the locusts - God's judgement in chapter one.  He speaks of the pouring out of God's Holy Spirit - "I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. . . " (2:28)  He speaks of that day when man no longer can choose.  "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!" (3:14)  This is the valley where only God makes decisions!

But, mostly, Joel speaks of "The Day of the Lord!"  And of God's constant plea with mankind because - "For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can endure it?"

God, You plea with us to "rend out hearts, not just our garments" (2:13)  You want true repentance, not just a going through the motions.

Oh, Lord, my daily life should reflect this fact.  "Alas, for the day!  For the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destructive tempest from the Almighty will it come."  (1:15)  You are coming - all of scripture points to this fact!  I pray, Lord, for loved ones.  I pray they repent and be saved.  "And whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered and saved. . . " (2:32)

My God is mighty to save!  Thank You, Lord, for saving me!

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!