Daily Uplift 2/24/25

When Life Falls Apart

Life can change in an instant. One moment, everything seems secure; the next, chaos takes over. That’s what happened in Joel 1—wave after wave of locusts devastated the land, leaving nothing behind. But the real crisis wasn’t just the loss of crops; it was the people’s distance from Elohim (God).

Sometimes, Elohim (God) allows disruptions to wake us up. Have you been ignoring warning signs in your life? Could Elohim (God) be calling you back before greater destruction comes?

🙏 Prayer: "Lord, help me recognize when You are calling me back. Give me eyes to see and a heart to respond."

Reading:

Joel Chapter 1

Joel 1

Names of God Bible

The Prophet Joel

1 This is what Yahweh said to Joel, son of Pethuel.

Judah Is Plagued with Locusts and Famine

2 Listen to this, you leaders!

  Open your ears, all inhabitants of this land!

    Nothing like this has ever happened in your lifetime

      or in your ancestors’ lifetime.

3 Tell your children about it.

  Have your children tell their children.

  Have your grandchildren tell their children.

4 What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat.

  What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat.

  What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.

5 Wake up and cry, you drunks!

  Cry loudly, you wine drinkers!

  New wine has been taken away from you.

6 A strong nation attacked my land.

  It has too many soldiers to count.

    They have teeth like lions.

    They have fangs like grown lions.

7      They destroyed my grapevines.

      They ruined my fig trees.

        They stripped off what they could eat,

          threw the rest away,

  and left the branches bare.

8 Cry loudly like a young woman who is dressed in sackcloth,

  mourning for the man she was going to marry.

9 Grain offerings and wine offerings

  are no longer brought to Yahweh’s temple.

    The priests, Yahweh’s servants, mourn.

10 Israel’s fields are ruined, and the ground is dried up.

  The grain has been destroyed.

  The new wine has dried up.

  The olive oil has run out.

11 Be sad, you farmers!

  Cry loudly, you grape growers!

    Mourn for the wheat and the barley.

      The harvest is destroyed in the field.

12 The grapevines are dried up.

  The fig trees are withered.

  The pomegranate, palm, and apricot trees,

    as well as all the trees in the orchards, have died.

      Yes, the joy of these people has died too.

13 Put on your sackcloth and mourn, you priests.

  Cry loudly, you servants of the altar.

  Spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my Elohim.

  Grain offerings and wine offerings

    are withheld from your Elohim’s temple.

14 Schedule a time to fast!

  Call for an assembly!

  Gather the leaders and everyone who lives in the land.

  Bring them to the temple of Yahweh your Elohim,

    and cry to Yahweh for help.

15 This will be a terrible day!

  The day of Yahweh is near,

    and it will come like destruction from Shadday.

16 Food disappears right before our eyes.

  Happiness and rejoicing disappear from our Elohim’s temple.

17 Seeds shrivel up in their shells.

  Storehouses are destroyed.

    Barns are ruined.

      The grain has dried up.

18 The animals groan.

  Herds of cattle wander around confused.

    There’s no pasture for them.

      Even flocks of sheep are suffering.

19 O Yahweh, I cry to you for help!

  Fire has burned up the open pastures.

    Flames have burned up all the trees in the orchards.

20 Even wild animals long for you.

  Streams run dry.

  Fire has burned up the open pastures.