“Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.” —Lamentations 2:19.
Lamentations is a reflection of a deep grief and sadness over the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. When the Babylonians break through the walls of Jerusalem after more than a 2 years siege against her. When the defenses of Jerusalem fails her. When the whole city of Jerusalem is burned to heaps of rubble.
Lamentation. Defined as a passionate expression of grief and sorrow. Intense Weeping.
Why would such such a tremendous depth of sadness have its own book in the Bible.
The desolation of Jerusalem after its fall. When all vestige of the life they had known is gone.
God understands that our lives here in this world encompasses loss and devastation. And sometimes our present life dies. Like life in Jerusalem died.
But there is hope, and that hope is found in the promises of God. Interwoven in small niches in the book of Lamentations are big promises of the faithfulness of God in the midst of the loss of life.
Beloved, like Jerusalem, we will rise again and find hope in our God who never abandons His people.
Believe and rise up to this Real Truth.
“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin fresh every morning.” —Lamentations 3:22-24
“For no one is abandoned by The Lord forever.”—Lamentations 3:31