EVEN NOW
Joel 2:12-13 12: “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” 13: Rend your heart and not your garments, Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.” I can think of no other words that can bring more comfort to a broken spirit than the words Joel wrote in the second chapter twelfth verse of the book bearing his name. EVEN NOW Two simple words but to a generation of Israelites who insisted on living in disobedience and rebellion our Lord with compassion and love reached down through the pen of his prophet and opened a divine invitation to the people he chose as his own. EVEN NOW As the Lords judgement inched ever closer with each passing day, Judah still in their indifference and in their stubbornness refused to see the loving invitation reaching down from the throne of grace to redeem and restore the people God loves so much. EVE...