Joel 2:12 Keep on coming to Me

Joel. 2:12. Amp "Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning (until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored."  So many bad things are happening in the world today, and it isn't getting better. People are overdosing, children are starving, and prisons are filled up. So many are in bondage, and can't break free. We need to turn all the way to the Lord. There's no time to think about or ignore what is going on in this world. God is saying to the people in this verse to Repent, turn from your old ways,  stop going the wrong way, and turn to Me with all your heart. We as Christians may not be able to change the whole world, but we sure can reach those around us for Christ. The only way we can be effective in this world is by turning, trusting, and relying all the way on Jesus. v:13. "Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and revokes His sentence of evil (when His conditions are met)." There is a need to be met out there in the world.  The Lord promises us when we meet His conditions with fasting, weeping, mourning, and the rendering of all of our heart, He will revoke His sentence. What do we have to lose? Give the Lord Praise today.