- Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. Lamentations 5:2 – Lamentations has been a heavy study to go through these past few days. It’s us walking into someone’s story of pain and getting the deep details of their struggle. God’s people here lost absolutely everything. Here in our passage today it even says the inheritance, the things they would have looked forward to claiming as there own one day, that too was taken away. For those who have placed their faith in Jesus, take comfort that the inheritance we have from God can never be taken away. The life, the forgiveness, the hope of heaven, and the welcoming into His presence can never be stripped away from us. Yes, even in our story like those in our passage, we can have so much in life taken from us. Take comfort though knowing that what you have in Christ can never be stripped away. It’s your promised blessing from your Heavenly Father. Today, maybe you’ll bump into someone who has lost so much in this world. See if you can share with them that in Christ is a blessing that they can never lose. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1363
- Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old — unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. Lamentations 5:21-22 – If you’ve been reading with me these last few days through Lamentations, we haven’t been reading super encouraging passages together. Here we have the last few lines of the book and they do sum up the attitude of the book. “God, make us right with you again, that is unless you have completely rejected us because of your anger towards us.” What a hopeless posture to find yourself in, but an understandable one as well when you read through the horrors they were facing at this time. As I was studying though, I came across this quote over this passage…“The book ends the way God intended it to end, with the kind of unresolved anguish we have come to expect from the Weeping Prophet. Yet Lamentations was never intended to have the last word.” (Ryken) Yes, the consequences of their sinful choices were present, real, and seemingly never-ending, but this season of lament wasn’t their forever story. God would bring restoration, God would eventually bring His Son to be their Messiah, and God will one day make all things new. Right now, you too may be in a season where it feels like God’s anger is just exceedingly great and the struggles you’re facing will never end. Just know your lamentation isn’t your final word. God’s promises are good, His love is real, and His promise of Heaven is true. Pray, seek the Lord, ask for Him to restore your heart back to what He wants it to be, and remember the truths of scripture about His love and promises even when the struggle of today is so real. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2738
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