the whole of it all

On 18 November, 2009 · Leave a Comment

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,

“therefore I will hope in him.”

Following the darkness of the second lament, this verse – right in the middle of the book – is powerful. Hopeful. Enlightening.

There’s something cleansing about suffering. It burns away everything that’s superfluous. And sometimes it’s when everything else is gone [...]

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the second lament

On 17 November, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Lamentations 2 is one of the darkest chapters in Scripture.

And to be honest, after my initial reading of it, I had to stop reading the book for a week before I could go back.

In the New Testament we read that the wages of sin is death. In the second lament we are thrown [...]

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for these things i weep

On 16 November, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Much of the Hebrew Scriptures are devoted to the prophets warning God’s people to turn from their sin. To repent and follow the God they claimed to follow. They warned that if God’s people didn’t return to him, he would take everything from him.

And the people didn’t listen.

So Jerusalem was destroyed. God’s people [...]

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