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.” Lamentations 3:22-25 (Lamentations 1-5)
Jeremiah had every right to gloat and say, “I told you so.” It wasn’t in his character because it was not the model of compassion and love he witnessed from the One who Loves us most. He chose to life like Him.
The five poems of Lamentation were written in the three months between the burning of the glorious city of Zion, and the departure of refugees to Egypt. Jeremiah felt profoundly that God had given Jerusalem up to the enemy as consequence for their sin. Although the action was justified and understood, his grief was inconsolable.
All that Jeremiah loved, the thing he fought the hardest for, was gone. He was broken, but at his very lowest, he trusted in God’s great goodness. We will share a place in Heaven with this great man of faith, a place named The New Jerusalem and what a day that will be!
Love,
Gretchen