July 27
Today's Reading: Lamentations 1:1-22
Today we begin a new section in our reading plan. The people of the southern kingdom of Judah grieve during exile but are comforted by the prophets, who reiterate God’s promise of restoration.
From the Faithlife Study Bible:
"Lamentations is set just after Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC. The book is composed of five poems that mourn the catastrophe. In Lamentations, the poet grieves, yet still has faith—crying out to God for mercy."
This first lament focuses on Jerusalem, personified as a grieving widow. The author, likely Jeremiah, acknowledges that God's judgment is completely justified, because of the rebellion of the people. But the encouraging thing here is that the author is still crying out to God in the midst of that Judgment.
Sometimes when we sin, our first tendency is to run from God. But what we learn here is that we instead need to cry out to God, acknowledge our sin and ask for God's mercy.
Today we begin a new section in our reading plan. The people of the southern kingdom of Judah grieve during exile but are comforted by the prophets, who reiterate God’s promise of restoration.
From the Faithlife Study Bible:
"Lamentations is set just after Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC. The book is composed of five poems that mourn the catastrophe. In Lamentations, the poet grieves, yet still has faith—crying out to God for mercy."
This first lament focuses on Jerusalem, personified as a grieving widow. The author, likely Jeremiah, acknowledges that God's judgment is completely justified, because of the rebellion of the people. But the encouraging thing here is that the author is still crying out to God in the midst of that Judgment.
Sometimes when we sin, our first tendency is to run from God. But what we learn here is that we instead need to cry out to God, acknowledge our sin and ask for God's mercy.
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