Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Joel 2:18-22
by: Grace Crouch.
The best way for me to relate to this passage is through a parent's eyes. In my boys' short lives, they have managed to find many ways to be disobedient and disrespectful. Even though they know what God says about obedience and honoring your mother and father, they still don't get it.
It is much easier to dole out punishment when my children are not sorry for their actions. When they confess and repent, I have pity on them. When there is true repentance in our hearts, God will forgive us.