Mar232007
Filed under: Bible Journey
Author: Tony Morgan
Here are my thoughts and highlights from Lamentations as I continue my journey through the Bible:
- "She played fast and loose with life, she never considered tomorrow, and now she’s crashed royally." Good reminder that I need to remain faithful and disciplined and that there are consequences to my actions.
- It’s comforting to know that even when I don’t know what to pray, God hears my groans.
- God does exactly what he says he’ll do.
- "I keep a grip on hope."
- Great is God’s faithfulness!
- "God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks."
- "Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The ‘worst’ is never the worst." Good reminder for someone like me who tends to worry too much.
- God wants us to find success in life. "He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way."
- "Better to have died of battle wounds than to slowly starve to death." I need to always engage the battle.
- "Music from the young is heard no more. All the joy is gone from our hearts." Makes me wonder if there’s some value to embracing music from the younger generations.
- God is a god of fresh starts.
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Isaac
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am
At first I thought you were quoting AC/DC:
“She was a fast machine…”
I was about to get really excited to read Lamentations!
Fred McKinnon
March 24th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Tony -
Awesome revelations … makes me wanna go back and read Lamentations straight through -
Can you give a Chapter/Verse type recap on the “music from the young is heard no more” … I’d love to study that one out!
For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
Worship Leader, Pianist, Blogger/Podcaster
http://www.fredmckinnon.com
tony morgan
March 24th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Fred, check out Lamentations 5:14-15.
tony
kent
March 24th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Tony,
Eugene Peterson has an older book called Five Smooth Stones, that includes Lamentations, and in it he speaks to the facts of suffering and links it to the structure of the book, an acrostic. All in all it was very good.
Vanessa
March 24th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
These thoughts challenge me…Thanks.