Joel "Image"

During my reading of Joel I couldn’t help but to see continuous vivid images in my head during my reading.  It is as though the whole purpose of this passage of the bible was meant to paint an image in the readers mind. I couldn’t tell you how many times I seen flying locust in my head eating up the land, and leaving crops for dead. While reading this whole passage it sort of played a dark and image of despair during the beginning I couldn’t help but to continue to see darkness and the reading even played with my emotion I begin to really get into the story. One of the many lines that definitely really painted a picture was “ The sun and moon grow dark and the stars lose their brightness”. When I read this line I just pictured a very cold and dark world. Just imagine the sun and moon and stars lose their shine for just a night. Not only will chaos break out but also anything that depends on the sunlight would perish. But the whole passage is just dark and gloomy it does paint a picture of hope towards the end that I really loved reading. I even posted that same line on the blog before    

And the hills will flow with milk,

And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;

And a spring will go out from the house of the LORD

To water the valley of Shittim.

This line painted such a picture of glory, provision and hope to me. It was as though God was saying despite all the chaos and darkness there is still hope for me people, and I will give them more and provide for them more then they ever pictured or imagine. This  really spoke to my own life because no matter how dark the situation might be, there is still light in Christ