The Book of the Twelve for Lent 2016 - Zephaniah (1)
The Book of the Twelve for Lent 2016 FUD – Zephaniah (1) Lent 2016 grows old. Holy Week is almost here. The repeated warnings and calls from the Lord for the people to wake up and pay attention to him or calamity, the Day of the Lord, is coming upon them as gone largely unheeded. Yet the Lord continues to cry out to them, hoping against hope, it seems, for a sign of recognition and response. Zephaniah chimes in today keeping God’s voice ringing out clearly to stir the people to repentance. Perhaps it is good at this point to draw back and ask ourselves why those people of God kept on resisting and resisting his call. Of Jerusalem I thought, ‘Surely you will fear me and accept correction!’ Then her place of refuge would not be destroyed, nor all my punishments come upon her. But they were still eager ...