We’ve heard the phrase: “Sometimes bad things happen to good people.”…  Simple enough to say “things will get better” but always hard to remember.  We pray for perseverance and hope. We have been thru tough times before and we should know that in the tough times, the tough spots of life, God brings us the LIGHT, the LOVE, the LIFT, because He is LORD!

The people of Lamentations, the chapter and the times, when Prophet Jeramiah was writing to inspire and console, had problems, BIG problems, but the scriptures remind us that God’s LOVE and POWER does and will outweigh the issues of the world. The words to inspire include: I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit. You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.” You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.” You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

So, yes, the world can be tough, the situations that trip us up, and issues that become like those LIONS that drag us like prey… We think the Lord has turned his backs on us and yet GOD is more LOVE than He is correction, we must remember that the Lord is LOVE and He Lights the Way.

Keep it simple – just follow HIM.

Amen

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Lamentations 3:1-26

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the Lord’s wrath. He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones. He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains. Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.

Like a bear lying in wait, LIKE A LION IN HIDING, he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long. He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.

He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.