The Years the Locusts Ate — Joel 2 on Restoration
Stand in a field that used to grow something. Maybe it was a marriage. Maybe a decade of work. Maybe silence where God once felt close. Joel 2 begins exactly here—not with an answer, but with a God who has already turned toward you.
Stand in a field that used to grow something. Maybe it was a marriage. Maybe a decade of work that went nowhere. Maybe a season when God felt close, and now there is only silence and bare ground. You find yourself doing the quiet arithmetic of loss. How many years. How much gone. Whether it is too late.
This is not the dramatic grief that arrives in a single blow. It is the slower kind, the accumulated kind, the dawning sense that a great deal of time has passed and the ground is still empty. If that is where you are, you do not have to resolve it yet. You only have to name it. Because that quiet math, the wondering whether anything green can come from soil this tired, is exactly where Joel 2 begins to turn.
Take a moment to read Joel 2:18-29. Read it on Bible Gateway if you'd like.