Earthquakes and Heartaches
It's offensive for us to think that God isn't stopping bad things from happening.
It's more offensive to think that He's orchestrates it. But He is in fact, orchestrating it.
All of it. The good and the bad. The book of Joel shows us this. Joel also shows us that we may possibly change what is to come. Whether we do it or not is up to us.
When we look at tragedy we should say: "What can we do to help?" But we should also say: "What didn't we do?"
Abba will use the least severe amount of tragedy for the shortest amount of time needed to change the most amount of hearts.
Joel 1:13-14
13 Kohanim, put on sackcloth, and weep! Wail, you who serve at the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night long, you who serve my God! For the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14 Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly, gather the leaders and all who live in the land to the house of ADONAI your God, and cry out to ADONAI,
Kohanim is the hebrew word for priests-priests that serve the people as a mediator between God and man. We always take II Chronicles 7:14 and the Joel chapter two verses, and make them a general application to the masses. The mindset is that THEY are the sinners to THEY need to repent. If we save THEM then THEY will repent and things will change. This is contrary to what the Book tells us.
It is US, not them, that need to humble ourselves, fast, pray, and plead with the Lord to relent. Not them. It's time for us, the Kohanim, to change our comfortable schedules, turn off the TV, put down the dessert fork, cancel the plans to hang with friends or catch a movie, and blow the trumpet in Zion and sound the alarm. It's time for US to "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God"
For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him.
Let it be on earth as it is in heaven.
It's more offensive to think that He's orchestrates it. But He is in fact, orchestrating it.
All of it. The good and the bad. The book of Joel shows us this. Joel also shows us that we may possibly change what is to come. Whether we do it or not is up to us.
When we look at tragedy we should say: "What can we do to help?" But we should also say: "What didn't we do?"
Abba will use the least severe amount of tragedy for the shortest amount of time needed to change the most amount of hearts.
Joel 1:13-14
13 Kohanim, put on sackcloth, and weep! Wail, you who serve at the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night long, you who serve my God! For the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14 Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly, gather the leaders and all who live in the land to the house of ADONAI your God, and cry out to ADONAI,
Kohanim is the hebrew word for priests-priests that serve the people as a mediator between God and man. We always take II Chronicles 7:14 and the Joel chapter two verses, and make them a general application to the masses. The mindset is that THEY are the sinners to THEY need to repent. If we save THEM then THEY will repent and things will change. This is contrary to what the Book tells us.
It is US, not them, that need to humble ourselves, fast, pray, and plead with the Lord to relent. Not them. It's time for us, the Kohanim, to change our comfortable schedules, turn off the TV, put down the dessert fork, cancel the plans to hang with friends or catch a movie, and blow the trumpet in Zion and sound the alarm. It's time for US to "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God"
For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him.
Let it be on earth as it is in heaven.
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