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Joel chapter 2 verses 12 and 13.

Yet even now declares the Lord return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping,

and with mourning, 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.

Oh, that's really, really, really good news, isn't it?

That God is gracious and merciful.

The holy just God of the universe

whom we have sinned against is gracious and merciful.

He is slow to anger and he is slow to anger and he is a bounding he's like full of like overflowing with

steadfast love and he relents over disaster meaning he doesn't pour out the judgment

and the wrath we deserve when we do what Joel chapter 2 verse 12

says and 13 says when we return to him with all our hearts with fasting with weeping with

mourning when we rend our hearts not our garments when we return to the Lord

our God the whole picture here in the Book of Joel is God saying to his people,

return to me, turn from your sin, turn from your

idea, your own own own heart, the whole picture here

with fasting, with weeping, with mourning,

just a contrition, a humility before God in light of sin and. a

contrition, a humility before God in light of sin and a rending of your heart,

which is basically a laying bear of your heart before God

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