Life has crashed into you.
Your children, lost to the world.
Your bedrock of finances, eroded by inflation and business losses.
Your reputation in the community shredded by false accusations … a looming divorce … a lawsuit that will not go away.
Just getting out of bed in the mornings is a reminder of how wrong things can go, things that we can never set right. After all, who can recall the water that runs into the sea?
Joel 2:25 (ESV) is our encouragement:
“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.”
We look and ask, “God, do you notice me? You sent all that? Do you still protect me? Or are you intentionally smashing my life to nothing?”
God says, “I will restore.”
“But,” we cry, “it’s gone already. Everything.”
God says, “I will restore.”
“You didn’t then,” we retort, with our finger pointed at the sky. “What did I do to cause my life? Were you teaching me a lesson? Is that what happened?”
God says, “Today is new. I will restore your children, your finances, your reputation, your family … all that the locust and ants have eaten. Trust in me, and I will restore it all to you.”
Then God wraps his protection around us with this verse from Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV):
“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”
Yesterday is over and done. We walk a new path starting today. God is our guiding light and our years of destruction restored.
We lift our hands to the King as we cry, “Amen to your Holy Name.”
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