Therefore I have Hope…
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. – Lamentations 3: 21 to 26
This chapter in the book of Lamentations is a very touching poem of repentance and hope. The author of Lamentations (probably thought to be Jeremiah) saw the ruin of Jerusalem (Zion) and wrote this lament for his once great city. Though the Lord had demonstrated his love towards his people Israel for long the people rebelled against him for every small thing and sinned against God. So God punished his people that he had withheld for long. The Babylonians had come and destroyed Jerusalem.
Most of the time we are like this, we keeping sinning against God and we tend to go away from him. We keep aside things relating to God. We have many other priorities other than God but still the Lord has waited patiently for us to come back. He has not beaten us or punished us as we deserve. Many of the pains and sufferings that we may be going through today in life maybe a small punishment from God that he could not withheld from us. Maybe if we were not punished, we would have been lost forever. So there is always hope. God’s love and compassion is so great that we are not consumed. His mercy and love is new every morning. Just imagine when we wake up from our sleep if we can still see and hear and walk and do our things on our own as usual its only because of God’s mercy. It is because he has looked after us during our sleep. Often we take all these things for granted. We don’t even thank God when we wake up in the morning. But no, everything, even the smallest thing as being able to scratch your own itch is a mercy from God. So there is always hope for all his children. We might feel we are forgotten by God but no he may delay but he will never reject his children forever.
For men are not cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men. – Lamentations 3: 31 to 33
Amen! My Lord is a great and compassionate God. He will take away my sins and cleanse me from all my inequities and make me a new creation because he is my hope and my salvation. He has taken my sins on the cross so that I may live and so that I may have hope of a new life with the Lord Almighty in eternity.
This chapter in the book of Lamentations is a very touching poem of repentance and hope. The author of Lamentations (probably thought to be Jeremiah) saw the ruin of Jerusalem (Zion) and wrote this lament for his once great city. Though the Lord had demonstrated his love towards his people Israel for long the people rebelled against him for every small thing and sinned against God. So God punished his people that he had withheld for long. The Babylonians had come and destroyed Jerusalem.
Most of the time we are like this, we keeping sinning against God and we tend to go away from him. We keep aside things relating to God. We have many other priorities other than God but still the Lord has waited patiently for us to come back. He has not beaten us or punished us as we deserve. Many of the pains and sufferings that we may be going through today in life maybe a small punishment from God that he could not withheld from us. Maybe if we were not punished, we would have been lost forever. So there is always hope. God’s love and compassion is so great that we are not consumed. His mercy and love is new every morning. Just imagine when we wake up from our sleep if we can still see and hear and walk and do our things on our own as usual its only because of God’s mercy. It is because he has looked after us during our sleep. Often we take all these things for granted. We don’t even thank God when we wake up in the morning. But no, everything, even the smallest thing as being able to scratch your own itch is a mercy from God. So there is always hope for all his children. We might feel we are forgotten by God but no he may delay but he will never reject his children forever.
For men are not cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men. – Lamentations 3: 31 to 33
Amen! My Lord is a great and compassionate God. He will take away my sins and cleanse me from all my inequities and make me a new creation because he is my hope and my salvation. He has taken my sins on the cross so that I may live and so that I may have hope of a new life with the Lord Almighty in eternity.
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