Tear Your Heart and Come Back

February 17, 2021

From today’s reading…

Tear your hearts and not your clothes, and come back to Yahweh your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, and he relents about inflicting disaster.” Joel 2:13

It takes 40 weeks to grow a healthy child in the womb. The Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years. Jesus fasted for 40 days.

Like Jesus, we now have the opportunity to focus on what matters for 40 days, to come back to God, to be gracious, to be compassionate, to not be snarky (I’m gonna struggle with that…I ain’t even gonna lie!), to be faithful, to be loving, and to thank God for holding true to His promise to Noah to not wipe the world clean of our fickle, wandering, selfish selves.

So clean up your hair, your clothing, and your heart for the next 40 days and remember how good it is to snuggle up our Savior, which is the only way to…

Stay the course.Keep the faith.Endure.

Now go sell something.