DCLM Daily Manna 24 February 2026: Promised Restoration
Text: Joel 3:1-8 (KJV)
“For behold, in those days and at that time,
When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.
3 They have cast lots for My people,
Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,
And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
4 “Indeed, what have you to do with Me,
O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?
Will you retaliate against Me?
But if you retaliate against Me,
Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head;
5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.
6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far from their borders.
7 “Behold, I will raise them
Out of the place to which you have sold them,
And will return your retaliation upon your own head.
8 I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the Sabeans,
To a people far off;
For the Lord has spoken.”
KEY VERSE- (Joel 3:1).
“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.”
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In Christianity, God is both a God of love and of justice. Many people struggle with this reality. They believe that a loving God can’t be a judging God. Christians and ministers alike, have asked this question literally thousands of times, “How can a God of love be also a God filled with wrath and anger? If he is loving and perfect. He should forgive and accept everyone. He shouldn’t get angry.”
God’s wrath is far from a cranky explosion. It is a settled opposition to the destructive cancer, which eats out the insides of the human race He loves with His whole being. The Bible says that God’s wrath flows from His love and delights in His creation.
He is angry at evil and injustice because it is destroying its peace and integrity. Our devotional Scripture underscores God’s deserved judgment on recalcitrant Tyre and rebellious Zidon because of their debauchery, human trafficking and the spoilage of His temple.
On the other hand, He gave God’s beleaguered people something to cheer about – restoration to their land although things looked bleak and hopeless.
This speaks about the mind of God towards all sinners and backsliders today. Regardless the depth of spiritual destitution, the shame of retrogression and the bleakness of the future, the backslider still has the assurance from God that “He restored my soul”.
God is the restorer of strayed souls and the lifter up of the heads of the downcast. He is the Saviour of the sinner and the Possessor of the “power to become sons of God”.
A resort to God in repentance, brokenness and heart-contrition offers backsliders and sinners a refuge in Christ, who has already faced the wrath of God on the penitent’s behalf when He was crucified at Calvary. This is the only way to salvation and restoration for the contrite and those ordained for life eternal, by their deliberate act of the will to fully surrender to the Lord.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
There is retribution for the recalcitrant and redemption for the repentant.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
1 Corinthians 1-4
DCLM Daily Manna 24 FEBRUARY 2026
