God Wants Your Heart

In the middle of chapter two, Joel gives us the most famous line from this book and indeed one of the most famous lines I think from the Old Testament. It goes like this, render heart and not your garments return to the Lord your God for his gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. So obviously Joel is saying, don't do fake repentance. God wants your heart. Well after he gets done saying that kind of stuff, which is thematically beautiful, the whole tone of the whole book pivots. And we start to pivot toward another day of the Lord that is also terrifying in its awesomeness, in its wonderfulness.