12 “Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
This is the verse that caught my attention this morning. It was a nice change from the cloud of doom that chpt 1 and the first part of chpt 2 spoke of. It shows the repentance that God wants us to have. The chapter talks about this redirecting in terms of a singular event. But, to me its a daily surrender. I have to keep focussing on the leaving my own wishes behind. The hard thing, is that this surrender doesn't guarantee the blessings that the second half of chpt 2 speaks of.....but, it can't hurt.
Have a good weekend
ReplyDelete31 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
Twice in this chapter it mentions the great and dreadful day of the lord. It just made me stop and think how as great as this day of Jesus return will be if you believe, but if you do not it will be truly terrifying on that day and forever. What a gripping thought. It should motivate me to help all I know find Jesus, yet I tend to be apathetic in terms of reaching out to non-believing friends. I need to change that.
knut