What moves you to tears? I can cry over the sentimental, such as when a mom is gifted a dandelion bouquet on Mother's Day or when a soldier reunites with their family. Ah, but sometimes tears well up over the plain old wrong in our world. Poverty, pain, pandemics,
and then there's the rebellion of turning away from our loving god, insisting on our own way and the heartbreaking consequences. These things bothered Jeremiah. He gravely prophesied to Israel about the destruction of jerusalem as a result of their ongoing disobedience. Forty years later, after his prophecy culminated in disaster, jeremiah wrote the poetic funeral dirge of lamentations. A Lament is a cry of grief.
Many of us might mourn when things don't go our way, But the book of lamentations is a picture of a man who grieved with God,
The things that make God grieve brought tears to Jeremiah. In fact, in lamentations 2:11, He cried
“my eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment within my heart is poured out on the ground, because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Jesus was the same way as he anticipated yet another destruction that was to come on jerusalem for waywardness. He stood overlooking the city and mourned for her saying in Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem , how I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
In the middle of his Lament Jeremiah offers hope in 3:22-23
“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”.
When we see the world through God's eyes, we'll find ourselves more and more like Jeremiah, like Jesus mourning, in lament over the wrongs in our world.
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