Joel 2:25 KJV
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
This is a wonderful and hopeful promise of God. Though Israel's judgment was like nothing they had seen before, with one marauder after the other, each one stripping what the one before had not taken, yet God said that when Israel repented and got right with God all of it would be restored.
It does no good to try to dismiss the armies of God which come against us in our rebellion against God. We can blame our trials on anything we choose but the Word of God says that our judgment is our fault and at the hand of Almighty God.
God strips us of our blessings, of our peace, of our rest and of our joy; all in an effort to bring us to repentance.
Sometimes we may think it will be impossible to ever see God's goodness again.
Sometimes the devastation our sin causes in our lives appears like there willNever be a revival,
Never be a restoration,
Never be a day of joy and gladness and blessing again.
That is when a passage like this is such a blessing to the soul. God promises to restore to us what was removed from us. Like Job, who lost everything, but then saw it restored and doubled. God makes the same promise to His people.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
This is a wonderful and hopeful promise of God. Though Israel's judgment was like nothing they had seen before, with one marauder after the other, each one stripping what the one before had not taken, yet God said that when Israel repented and got right with God all of it would be restored.
It does no good to try to dismiss the armies of God which come against us in our rebellion against God. We can blame our trials on anything we choose but the Word of God says that our judgment is our fault and at the hand of Almighty God.
God strips us of our blessings, of our peace, of our rest and of our joy; all in an effort to bring us to repentance.
Sometimes we may think it will be impossible to ever see God's goodness again.
Sometimes the devastation our sin causes in our lives appears like there willNever be a revival,
Never be a restoration,
Never be a day of joy and gladness and blessing again.
That is when a passage like this is such a blessing to the soul. God promises to restore to us what was removed from us. Like Job, who lost everything, but then saw it restored and doubled. God makes the same promise to His people.
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