Day 231 Reading: Joel 1:1 - Joel 3:21 The land of Israel was not only rampaged by the armies of enemies who held the people captive, the prophet Joel reveals to us that swarms of locusts had devasted the land. God in His love for His children sends Joel to speak His Word. I remember growing up and these insects arrived in my home nation. We heard on radio and TV that locusts were arriving in that region. My brother and I asked our dad quizzically what were locusts and to help his young sons understand he advised that they are like grasshoppers only bad because they would eat everything that was green. We had planted maize and beans in our farm and once the locusts flew out nothing green was anywhere in sight. Locusts are very interesting creatures. They are brown in colour at an early stage. This is when it is solitary. The locust likes being alone. However, once it rubs with another locust it produces a chemical reaction that soon causes a colour change and it begins ...
Daily we need to rise, conquer and be all that we can be.