I'm thinking today of Joel 2.1. It says,
Blow a trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm on my holy mountain.
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord is coming.
Surely it is near.
Here is notice that will make a person scared.
God is going to do in response to the unfaithfulness he sees among the people.
It isn't going to be pleasant for a lot of folks.
This is why sinners should mourn and repent.
Don't laugh at the things that we don't do wrong.
Don't take them lightly.
Let's take them seriously and change and do what's right the best we can.
God sees. He sees and will judge sin.
Jesus is coming again and ultimately,
what will happen on that day will really be determined by
what a person has done with Jesus Christ, God's son.
Did you believe on the one whom he has sent?
Let's assume for a moment that you did believe on the one whom he has sent.
Then what are you doing about what you believe?
To say you believe, to mentally ascend to something and do nothing about it is really not,
that's not believing at all.
And so I would encourage you then to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ whom God has sent
and then to live according to what you believe because
there will be those who hear the trumpet and tremble.
It will be afraid for the day of the Lord is coming.
And surely it is near.