God Can Restore

"I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten." Joel 2:25

How many years are we not told; only this: "I will restore the years."

Human lives are often laid bare - barren patches produced by your own failures; a wilderness stretching across our life. But what comfort in these words: I will RESTORE the years that the locus hath eaten."

Have you been brooding over some sorrow? Has it darkened your life as a swarm of locusts might darken the sun at midday? And have you cried out in your anguish, "The sun will never shine again?" But read the word He has promised:

"I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten."

Turn to Him, dear reader - turn to the One whom you may have been inclined to forget when you lived in the larger house. He is waiting; and if he does not see fit to give you back the earthly possession once so highly prized by you, remember this: in a higher and better way He will restore those years.

The years that the locust hath eaten sometimes take another form: years spent away from God in pursuit of worldly pleasure and self-gratification! How many have tried this! No wonder the fields are bare! Can God restore those years? Did He not restore the years for Naomi?

GOD CAN!

The blue water-lily abounds in several of the canals in Alexandria, Egypt, which at certain seasons become dry; and the beds of these canals, which quickly become burnt as hard as bricks by the action of the sun, are then used as carriage roads. When, however, the water is admitted again, the lily resumes its growth with redoubled vigour and splendour.

By Mrs. Charles E Cowman taken from "Springs in the Valley"