“You sent my people to that faraway place. But I will bring them back. Joel 3:7 ICB
Sometimes we face certain situations in life that seem so hard, so terrible, so final and we think there is no coming back from them. But it is God who has the final say, not that bad circumstance and not that challenging season. In the book of Joel chapter 3, we see God’s people being shipped off by their enemies to the furthest place they could possibly imagine. What the enemies of God’s people did not know or count on was that their God holds the universe in His hands and with a simple flick of the wrist is more than able to bring them back! Hallelujah! I pray you get the same Revelation of this that I got. God said “but I will bring them back”! Like He did for Daniel whose peers and workmates plotted against him, drawing up a devious plan to get him thrown into a pit for the lions to devour. Like He did for Joseph whose very own siblings plotted to kill him and sold him into slavery. Like He did for Esther and all the Jews who were set up by Mordechai. Like He did for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who refused to confirm to ungodly society norms by bowing down to the golden image and were thrown into a fiery furnace. Like He did for Paul and Silas who were thrown into jail unjustly for preaching the Gospel of Jesus with boldness. God brought them all back out of terrible situations unscathed and He will bring you back too! You may be broke, beaten, overwhelmed, discouraged, abandoned and in despair. Take heart, the God we serve will bring you out and deliver you!
Why was it so important for God to bring them back? Why not just bless them where they were and end it? Because you don’t mess with God and His people. You don’t bully them. You don’t decide where they go and thrive. God does. And He wants them back where He had them in the first place.
Look at Joel 3:16-17 ICB
The Lord will roar like a lion from Jerusalem. His loud voice will sound like a growl from Jerusalem. And the sky and the earth will shake. But the Lord will be a safe place for His people. He will be a strong place of safety for the people of Israel. “Then you will know that I am the Lord your God. I stay in my holy Mount Zion. Jerusalem will become holy. Strangers will never take over that city again.
God wanted His people back because He said He will stay in His Holy Mount Zion. And where God is, that place is Holy that is why verse 17 goes on to say Jerusalem will become Holy. That is why God brought His people back. To be where He is and be Holy.
Now today, by the grace of God and through Jesus Christ, we have been marked with the gift of the Holy Spirit. As long as we remain in Jesus, we remain in God and remain Holy. God brings us back not to Zion physically per se, but He brings us back to Himself through Jesus and in the Holy Spirit!
A time is coming and I indeed here when the true worshippers of God will not pilgrim to worship Him in Jerusalem, because God is a Spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. John 4:23-24
Through Jesus you have the freedom to approach God in prayer anytime and anywhere. Wherever you are right now, because of Jesus’ finished work on the cross, you can approach God’s throne with boldness and receive all the help we need in times of need. In the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, boardroom, driveway, grocery store, on a walk, at the park and in your prayer closet.
Let us take time to ask God right now to give us divine and full understanding of this word.
Let us take time right now to thank God for we have received the promised Holy Spirit.
Let us take time right now to worship our God in spirit and in truth.
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