Debugging Disaster (1 of 3)
Series: Joel
Robert Dawson
Joel 1:1-20
When Kristal and I first moved to Durham, NC., we lived in a small one-bedroom garage apartment built back in the 1940s. It was a great time in our young marriage and to this day is one of my favorite places that we lived. The mom-and-pop ice cream parlor across the street didn’t hurt things! But, there was this time we came home to an infestation. We had been overrun...by ladybugs.
They were everywhere. I didn’t know there were that many ladybugs in the world so imagine my surprise to find all of them vacationing in our little apartment. They were on the furniture. They were on the walls. They were on the blinds and curtains.
We didn’t have a fancy vacuum cleaner with a detachable hose and all sorts of neat little attachments. That meant removing them required some creative measures. While we didn’t have a fancy vacuum cleaner, we had duct tape and packaging tape. We wrapped some around our hands with the sticky side out and start slapped them on the furniture, the walls and the curtains. When they filled up, we wrapped and slapped some more.
It was one of the weirdest things. A swarm of ladybugs in our apartment. I’m glad they were not dangerous or destructive! We would have been in trouble and it could have gotten a little costly and scary.
Tonight, sticking with the minor prophets, I want you to turn to the book of Joel. Find Daniel and go a couple of books to the right and you’ll be staring at Joel who found himself dealing with an infestation and destructive swarm of his own, a devastating swarm of locus that turns into a natural national disaster for the people, one that invites questions about God and life.
Joel’s name means ‘‘Whose God is YHWH.’’ We don’t know with any certainty the time period he lives and ministers in. There are no historical clues that help us locate Joel on a timeline of biblical history, though many think it is earlier, pre-exilic, before they h ...
Series: Joel
Robert Dawson
Joel 1:1-20
When Kristal and I first moved to Durham, NC., we lived in a small one-bedroom garage apartment built back in the 1940s. It was a great time in our young marriage and to this day is one of my favorite places that we lived. The mom-and-pop ice cream parlor across the street didn’t hurt things! But, there was this time we came home to an infestation. We had been overrun...by ladybugs.
They were everywhere. I didn’t know there were that many ladybugs in the world so imagine my surprise to find all of them vacationing in our little apartment. They were on the furniture. They were on the walls. They were on the blinds and curtains.
We didn’t have a fancy vacuum cleaner with a detachable hose and all sorts of neat little attachments. That meant removing them required some creative measures. While we didn’t have a fancy vacuum cleaner, we had duct tape and packaging tape. We wrapped some around our hands with the sticky side out and start slapped them on the furniture, the walls and the curtains. When they filled up, we wrapped and slapped some more.
It was one of the weirdest things. A swarm of ladybugs in our apartment. I’m glad they were not dangerous or destructive! We would have been in trouble and it could have gotten a little costly and scary.
Tonight, sticking with the minor prophets, I want you to turn to the book of Joel. Find Daniel and go a couple of books to the right and you’ll be staring at Joel who found himself dealing with an infestation and destructive swarm of his own, a devastating swarm of locus that turns into a natural national disaster for the people, one that invites questions about God and life.
Joel’s name means ‘‘Whose God is YHWH.’’ We don’t know with any certainty the time period he lives and ministers in. There are no historical clues that help us locate Joel on a timeline of biblical history, though many think it is earlier, pre-exilic, before they h ...
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