Lamentations1: 1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! DO YOU NOT WANT TO ASK HIM HOW?
woooooooooooooooooe wait a minute, asking "how" will mean you'll have to read on, it may mean you have to dust off that Bible, open never before opened pages, and it may mean you might get touched by His burden....and we wouldn't want that. Poor Mose's!! touched by the burden of God, glowed in such a way that it was almost embarrassing because it made him uniquely different. "Hey Mose's please keep the bag over your head!"
Most people I know don't mind being different if it makes them popular ...but that may not be the case if the difference is a passion for His answers in your life ....You could end up being a little strange in a rebellious world.
LET's look at the questions and see if they cause a holy curiosity for His answers to the questons:
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
(Isolated, seperated, alone ...empty ....facing seperation, isolation and loneliness......HOW ...WHY????)
How is she become as a widow!
(widowed, forsaken as a widow, abandoned by the love of her life ......HOW ...WHY????)
(She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces,)
How is she become tributary!
(Enslaved, forsed into gang-labor, serfdom, working off an unseemingly, unending debt....HOW ... WHY????)
In racing to Lamantations chapter One to find the answers, the plot will thicken, the picture will grow more broken and heavy ...you must press on with each aweful picture of pain, each embarrassing family portrait, each tear stained word, and continue asking WHY? HOW? ...the answers that are obvious actually have more subtle and dark incidents attached to them. Find them grieve over them and .....
GUARD YOUR HEART!
"There go I and You, but for the Grace of God."
If you get the time see if you can find His answers ... the pictures presented are shockingly are much like our situation today.
Pray for our families, friends, churches, leaders, and Country.
God help us if we don't look for His answers.
HLFA,
Jeff
How is she become tributary!
(Enslaved, forsed into gang-labor, serfdom, working off an unseemingly, unending debt....HOW ... WHY????)
In racing to Lamantations chapter One to find the answers, the plot will thicken, the picture will grow more broken and heavy ...you must press on with each aweful picture of pain, each embarrassing family portrait, each tear stained word, and continue asking WHY? HOW? ...the answers that are obvious actually have more subtle and dark incidents attached to them. Find them grieve over them and .....
GUARD YOUR HEART!
"There go I and You, but for the Grace of God."
If you get the time see if you can find His answers ... the pictures presented are shockingly are much like our situation today.
Pray for our families, friends, churches, leaders, and Country.
God help us if we don't look for His answers.
HLFA,
Jeff