Today’s Thought “Refusing Complacency” G. Ward

Lamentations 3

²² The Lord’s acts of mercy indeed do not end, For His compassions do not fail. ²³ They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

 

Unrepentant sin from Jerusalem was the issue and the Prophet Jeremiah would forecast an exile unto God’s people for forty years to be absolutely regarded as out of touch, along with guilty in pervading such gloom and doom and whereas he would maintain hope with compassion (even with incessant tears – not for his welfare, but theirs), this is written while God’s people (including himself) would be captive to an unruly Babylon. It’s a presentation of monumental proportion to mankind’s selfish plight for these times; in that Truth shared is yet rejected similarly and the presumed mouthpieces of God absolutely won’t present the inevitability of gloom (cf. Ro.6:23), but more desire to be admired from the people than care for their souls. We too are in a strange land and whereas endurance is mostly compromised by spiritual lethargy, along with the predominance of man seeking happiness over joy in all circumstances, crumbling when trials happen is a common occurrence, because the ONE they said knew them, never did (cf. Jas.1:2-4).