Joel

The book of Joel is really God's warning to his people. Just like in the dessert when his people were turning away from him, God will punish his people if they don't turn from their evil ways. Over and Over again God will warn them, with prophets and his words. God doesn't want to punish his people, he loves his sons and daughters but just like a parent punishing their child from doing wrong God must punish us.

This applies to us even to this day. How is it that God will give his children all of the warnings yet we still will not hear him, nor do we turn from our evil ways. I think about how we will sit here and read God's word and say to ourselve "how blind must the Isrealites be not to see what God is trying to tell them. How can you be doing exactly what God is telling you not to do and how could you complain and worry when God has always taken care of you?" Many times I will read The story of Noah and how, through Noah, God warned those people over and over to repent. In the dessert God told his children over and over again that he will take care of their needs such as the mana from the sky. When things got hard them would wished to be back in Egypt even when God will tell them that he will take care of them. I often wonder if that is what God is telling us today. "How can you worry about your day when I'm providing for you? How can you question my exsistence when I've shown you myself over and over agian?" Of course he understands our heart and does not think we are stupid but we must be. We have more evidence than the Isrealites in the Bible. We have their stories to read from and should that not be enough evidence for us to be in faith?