Joel 2:12-13 ESV
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Isaiah 55:6-9
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
His purpose in creation has always been to be with us. We have not been easy to work with. Our hearts often stray from His voice, or ignore it altogether.
Yet He keeps calling, holding out the hand of love. The time approaches when judgement will come at last. Not wishing anyone would perish, He continues to offer mercy and forgiveness, yet even now.
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