The Day of The Lord

Even now — this is the Lord ’s declaration — turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, and He relents from sending disaster. Joel 2:12‭-‬13 HCSB

In chapter 2 Joel is graphically depicting a dreadful day: a day when the sun ceases to shine and the stars cease to give light. Yet starting with verse 12 he says the above.  Repentance changes things.

I wonder how many times the future has been changed by repentance? The world operates on many principles, one of them sowing and reaping. If we sow bad seed that will reap destruction and do not repent, we receive the harvest of what we have sown. You cannot abuse others and fail to reap a harvest, you cannot  cheat and steal and not have someone do the same to you.  Yet we see in the bible a particular man who had been a tax collector amd thief and on repentance he repaid all he had stolen and made restitution. Jesus came to dine in his home, he became a follower of Jesus.

Repentance with action is important.  If we are truely repentant things change around us, we change and bring  release into our worlds. Amen