As we move through Advent, we read this message (warning?) from Joel: Sound the alarm. The day of the Lord is coming, a day of darkness and gloom. (Read Joel 2:1-11).
Yet, even in the face of our deserved judgment, the Lord continues to beckon, "Return to me."
Let us heed Joel's reminder: Rend your hearts and not your clothing (13).
What do we need to give up (or to take up) that is our way of fasting, weeping, and mourning?
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In verse 13, we see the familiar doxology of God's mercy (Exodus 34:5-7). Then, in verses 28-29 comes God's promise to us, all of us--old, young, male, female, free, slaves. God's spirit will be poured out on all of us so that we can prophesy, that we can dream, that we can see visions.
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