Our team has been reading Michael Card's "A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching out to God in the Lost Language of Lament". We've walked with Job, David, and Jeremiah through their deep suffering and how they poured out their hearts to God and wouldn't let go of God in the midst of circumstances that seemed to not fit with God's character. They remained in the dance with God, and found that He wasn't who they thought He was...He was Other.
As we read through Lamentations this week, I was struck with the horror of the devastation of the city and was painfully aware of how the cries of Jeremiah were not all that unlike those of Bundibugyo or Sudan.
"Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets. They cry out to their mothers, "We need food and drink!" Their lives ebb away in the streets...They gasp for life as they collapse in their mothers' arms."
"...your wound is a deep as the sea, who can heal you?"
"Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners...we hunt for food at the risk our our lives for violence rules the countryside...our enemies rape the women of Jerusalem..." (Lamentations)
The pain of Jerusalem's devastation is present in today's world. And it brings up many questions of Why? and How Long? It is my hope that we would hold onto Jesus until we are changed by the truth of the answers.
As we read through Lamentations this week, I was struck with the horror of the devastation of the city and was painfully aware of how the cries of Jeremiah were not all that unlike those of Bundibugyo or Sudan.
"Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets. They cry out to their mothers, "We need food and drink!" Their lives ebb away in the streets...They gasp for life as they collapse in their mothers' arms."
"...your wound is a deep as the sea, who can heal you?"
"Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners...we hunt for food at the risk our our lives for violence rules the countryside...our enemies rape the women of Jerusalem..." (Lamentations)
The pain of Jerusalem's devastation is present in today's world. And it brings up many questions of Why? and How Long? It is my hope that we would hold onto Jesus until we are changed by the truth of the answers.
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