Thursday Reading: Lamentations 3:22-26
Key Verse: Lamentations 3:25
25 Jehovah is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Devotion:
If you start reading from the beginning of this chapter in Lamentations this passage bring on even more meaning. Every day we may feel like things are going wrong, every day we may feel like God has rejected us or ignored us but as we read through His Word we are reminded of the fact that His mercy is everlasting. As the writer puts it in verse 23 “They are new every morning”. Each day we get up we can be assured that it is a fresh new day with just as much mercy from God as there was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. When we get ourselves down we very often forget that and begin to feel like God has rejected us – He never will!
If we look at what man gets up to each day we can really wonder at how we have not destroyed ourselves already. The latest band-wagon that everyone is on is global warming. If you look at some of the evidence that they are putting forward we should have destroyed ourselves many years ago! But God has not finished with us yet; He still wants us to be saved because He is merciful and loving. How can we not have hope in Him when we know just how rotten we are and look at what He has already done for us. God has set in motion His will and His way and we are part of His plan. He will not suddenly change His mind and leave us in the lurch – despite what we may think!
We don’t need to jump up and down in the isles, we don’t need to shout about God in the streets, we can close ourselves off in a closet and turn our love to Him; so long as we do turn our love to Him. He does not want us to show off in front of others because that would lift ourselves up. He does not want us to feel dejected because that would show unbelief. He wants us to be in a relationship with Him knowing that that relationship is going to be forever and is held together, thankfully, by Him and not us!
Points to Ponder:
Do you blame winter for getting you down?
Are you lifting God up in your heart?
