October 31, 2024
“The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning… Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old” (Lamentations 5:15, 21 ESV). Jeremiah lamented over the fall of Jerusalem and the dire condition of his people. He described their hunger and homelessness,
October 30, 2024
“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth” (Lamentations 3:27 ESV). There is a worldly saying that describes a way of life that has destroyed many a young person which says, “Sow your wild oats before settling down.” But the Bible says the opposite. The prophet Jeremiah must have
June 30, 2024 | Lamentations 3:22-24
In a world full of broken relationships and broken promises, don’t you wish you knew someone who was faithful? Someone dependable and reliable? Someone constant and trustworthy?
And that’s what our God is. He is faithful! In Lamentations 3, the prophet Jeremiah declared his hope in God’s faithfulness in the midst of his suffering and sorrow. We can put our hope in God’s faithfulness.
October 30, 2023
“I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” (Lamentations 3:24 NLT). The prophet Jeremiah cried out to God for the fallen city of Jerusalem, and for his own homelessness and suffering. Yet, in the midst of this sorrowful lament, Jeremiah looked to God for his inheritance. Rather than
October 30, 2022
PRAYERS FROM THE PIT The prophet Jeremiah had been cast into a pit because of his preaching. His own people hated the word he preached so much, that they cast him into a cistern, which “had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud” (Jer. 38:6). If it hadn’t been
October 29, 2022
BE WARY OF PREACHING THAT GIVES FALSE HOPE Jeremiah lamented the failure of Judah’s prophets to preach God’s Word and to call His people to repentance of their sin. Instead they filled the people with false hope. The last days of Jerusalem before its fall to Babylon were marked by a people with “itching ears”
October 29, 2021
WHO CRIES OUT IN LAMENT TO GOD TODAY? Lamentations was written to “lament” (to grieve and mourn) the destruction of Jerusalem by the prophet Jeremiah. It calls the remnant of Judah to “cry out” to the Lord in their distress. Like the book of Job, it puzzles over the results of evil and suffering in
October 30, 2020
HAVE YOU EVER PRAYED FROM A PIT? The prophet Jeremiah had been cast into a pit because of his preaching. His own people hated the word he preached so much, that they cast him into a cistern; “it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud” (Jer. 38:6). If
October 29, 2020
WHO CRIES OUT IN LAMENT TO GOD TODAY? Lamentations was written to “lament” (to grieve and mourn) the destruction of Jerusalem by the prophet Jeremiah. It calls the remnant of Judah to “cry out” to the Lord in their distress. Like the book of Job, it puzzles over the results of evil and suffering in
October 30, 2019
THE LORD HIMSELF IS MY INHERITANCE The prophet Jeremiah cried out to God for the fallen city of Jerusalem, and for his own homelessness and suffering. Yet, in the midst of this sorrowful lament, Jeremiah looked to God for his inheritance. Rather than look to worldly things, he looked to the Lord Himself as his