The Day of the Lord

Day 204: Zephaniah 1-3

Zephaniah, the prophet, writes about the Day of the Lord, a day when the Lord will judge and destroy Israel and Judah for all their wrongdoing, their sin. The faithful will be delivered, and the unfaithful will be destroyed.

I'm not sure exactly what the Day of the Lord is, whether it's come or whether it hasn't. Or whether the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus actually means this Day of the Lord will never happen.

But it seems that God is serious about us being faithful to him. He is in control of our lives, and he wants us to be faithful to him. He made us, and we are his. He wants us to seek him, to seek righteousness. Seek humility. We could all use to work on becoming more righteous and more humble. I don't know what's to come, but God wants it from us, and we should thus give it to him.

The LORD your God is with you,
       the Mighty Warrior who saves.
       He will take great delight in you;
       in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
       but will rejoice over you with singing.

Steadfast Love of the Lord

Day 175: Lamentations 1-3

The book of Lamentations is pretty grim, but hope still remains. I leave you today with this thought from Lamentations 3:18-26.

So I say, "My splendor is gone
       and all that I had hoped from the LORD."
    I remember my affliction and my wandering,
       the bitterness and the gall.
    I well remember them,
       and my soul is downcast within me.
    Yet this I call to mind
       and therefore I have hope:
    Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
       for his compassions never fail.
    They are new every morning;
       great is your faithfulness.
    I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
       therefore I will wait for him."
    The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
       to the one who seeks him;
    it is good to wait quietly
       for the salvation of the LORD.

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; it is new every morning.