Lament Like a Virgin - Joel 1:8-13

There was a report on the news about a young man who died in a car accident on the way to his wedding. The young bride was devastated. How heart breaking, I was in tears for this young girls grief. None of us here can even relate to this girl and the heart break she had to deal with. 

This is how we are called to repentance. To lament like a virgin! The more we are wedded to our creature-comforts that harder it is to part with them. We are called out to lament the sins of our nation and the sins of our heart, and with the world and its un-holy culture of acceptance through compromise. The countrymen and the clergy are called out in Joel to mourn and cry. What? Here comes the prophetic! 

Isaiah 32:10–12

 10  In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come. 11  Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist. 12  Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Are you heart broken because of the sin in your life and the sins of our people and nation? God is!

Pastor Patrick