ASL Devotions -- Monday

Joel 2:25 I will repay you for the years
   that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
   my great army, which I sent against you.

It's dangerous to take one verse out of the whole Bible and create whole scenes of what God is like from them. We can't extrapolate whole characteristics of God from one verse. That being said, I'm going to give it a try.

That being said, this verse has always fascinated me. It's one of many promises of the prophets. The prophets spoke mostly in times when people were in very difficult circumstances. Their farms were destroyed. Their cities were destroyed. Many of them were in slavery. Everything was gone. And the prophets promised that God would restore things.

But Joel took it a step further here, at least as I read this. Joel promises not only that God would give back the farms and restore the land that has been destroyed by the locusts. But the God talked about by Joel believes in restorative justice. Not only will God give us the farms back. God will repay us for lost profits for the years that the farms were barren. God always takes things a step further than we might have expected. Take your idea of what would be fair and what would be right. Multiply it by a million. Now MAYBE you can see God's sense of things from where you're at.  Even God's restoring of fortunes is bigger than our imagination.

In Christ,
Pastor Seth

Remember that this weekend begins our summer worship schedule. Worship Saturday evening at 5 and Sunday morning at 9.