Turn to the Lord with all your heart

Joel 2:1-17
The day of the Lord is coming, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come.
The day of the Lord is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
"Even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning"
Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.
The locust army becomes a picture of the invading army of God on the day of his judgment: the sky black with insects; the 'scorched earth' in their wake; their inexorable, totally irresistible, onward march. This is what God's judgments will be like. Who can bear it?
Why?
The good news is that no one need endure God's judgment. He is still calling people to repent. Joel calls the whole nation to turn to God and plead for mercy.
God is waiting for us, turn to the Lord and plead for mercy.
How?
The day of the Lord is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it? Turn to the Lord with all your heard.