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Lamentations 1 - 5

For the result of unrepentent sin is suffering and pain. This is an ancient fact for a modern problem. We all have to consider times to lament and weep before the Lord for our transgressions.

(NIV)Lamentations 1:1

1
How deserted lies the city,
once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

(NIV)Lamentations 1:7
In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

For our sinful nature eventually comes too circle. We can't escape the obvious in our lives and think that we'll hey away with it.

(NIV)Lamentations 2:5
The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.

Woe to me when the time comes that God has become my enemy!

(NIV)Lamentations 2:13
What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?

When God feels hurt, who can heal him? For often times, I don't think of the ways I'm hurting God and how he feels about how I'm leaving my life.

(NIV)Lamentations 3:1-2

3
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the Lord’s wrath. [2] He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;

For walking with God cannot possibly become this bitter of an experience! But yet when we become so far from God, we can get easily reach this stage.

(NIV)Lamentations 4:6
The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without a hand turned to help her.

Wow! For the former glories can seem like a curse when the present hardships seem too great. For even nowadays, God's blessings can be easily missed because we focus too much on the negAtives.

(NIV)Lamentations 5:15, 17
Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. [17] Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim

For time like these where everyone around you seem not to care and you feel alone and destitute. For it's so difficult so see God's providence in all madness. But yet he watches over us and smiles because all we need to do is give him the proper respect he deserves, we shall be showered with endless blessings from His holy throne.

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