“For these things I weep;
My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.” – Lam 1:16
This week I spent a few days reading through Lamentations. More of personal study time in prayerful meditation over the words in five chapters of the book. While the book of Lamentations concerns the prophet’s Jeremiah’s lamentations over the destruction of Judah, Jerusalem, and Solomon’s temple, the deep and lasting sorrow speaks of the woes of separation from YHWH our Creator.
Numerous highlights and notes were marked and written to gather a building sense, meaning, and theme as a point of the text. Translated in my spirit as grief, suffering, and mourning of our time and the struggles we see today. Tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, a mass shooting, political strife, cultural warfare, foreign instabilities, a corrupt government, and the evils of Jihad. All these adversities are passing with far more to come in frequency and intensity. So it is of the highest priority to abide in prayer, abide in God’s word, and remain in fellowship as a continuing necessity.
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