Almost didn’t post this “Coffee with the Lord” reflection from my Bible reading yesterday … Then I felt the “nudge” of the Holy Spirit urging me to post it… So… I’m convinced someone of my FB friends needs its message!!!
Lamentations in the Bible describes a desperate time! Jerusalem had been completely destroyed! The temple had been desecrated and demolished! The streets were filled with the consequences of brutality and violence! They thought it could never happen to “the holy city” – but their sin and rebellion had brought it upon them!
The lesson? In desperate times (both personally and nationally) we should cry out to the Lord! He will come near and speak, calming our fears… and He will act! The writer of Lamentations in the Bible came to believe that! Here is what he did…
“I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit; you heard my plea! ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’ You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’ You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life. You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge my cause. You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me… You will repay them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands!” (From Lamentations 3:55-64 ESV)
My conviction? In troubled times we should do what the writer of Lamentations did (we might even use his words)!
Coffee With The Lord 