Joel 2:23 · World English Bible
Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
Gladness is the right response to existence, not a reward for having earned something. After the locust years, after the mind has eaten its own field bare with its worry and its calculation, rain comes anyway.
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AWARENESS
Gladness is the right response to existence, not a reward for having earned something. After the locust years, after the mind has eaten its own field bare with its worry and its calculation, rain comes anyway. It was never withheld as punishment and it is not now given as wages. It falls because falling is its nature.
The early rain and the latter rain point to something the mind cannot arrange: what is needed arrives in its own time, in just measure, and the one who trusts this stops living in the anxious future. Celebration is that trust made visible. A man who dances in the first drops is no longer negotiating with life; he is drinking it.
Indian Guru lens
What good thing have you refused to enjoy until you were sure you deserved it?
Heaven and earth give rain without keeping accounts, and the way feeds everything without claiming credit. It falls because that is its nature, not because anyone earned it.
He wrote that the field is given back greener after the burning, and that what we take for loss is often the ground being turned. The season changes without our permission.
The teaching is that the ordinary day is the whole gift, so the right response is simple thanks rather than a calculation about what you deserve.
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