Lamentations 2
We are walking in today:
Why Study and Teaching The Laments
?
Teaching from the book:
Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament
:
A guide to the church
,
by Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Witness p
roclamation
throughout the Bible:
H7121
qara
to call, recite, cry out, utter a loud sound, summon, appoint and call to endow.
Jonah 3:7; Ezra 1:1, 10:7; Romans 16:25; Titus 1:2-3; 1 Peter 3:18-20
Lamentations 2
:
11
My eyes are worn out from weeping,
everything in me is churning;I
am empty of emotion
because of the wounds to my people,
because children and infants are fainting away
in the streets of the city.
We must be careful in taking
our
pain personally, your emotions lie, Fiveamprayer! Today we continue our study of the book of
Lamentations.
Or the book
of emotional prayers
,
as
I call it.
It is a book small
in chapters and powerful in relations. We find the passages heartfelt literally associating with the young prophet
,
Jeremiah weeping
,
pleading about
Yahweh
and the dialogue over the fate of Israel.
Written
as if
these laments
are told personally and for the nation
--
they were. Examples of the love and care of
Yahweh
trampled under foot by
His
people.
This book shows the
care He placed over
His
children only to have them rebuild and serve foreign gods
again and again
.
These are
emotionally filled proclamations from the young prophet.
Jeremiah expressed his deepest remorse over the insight of destruction and captivity promise
d
to Israel.
Lamentations
is
an example
and
should cause the reader to deal with pain and the focus of Yahweh.
As our healer and redeemer in
spite of rebellion against
His
eternal law
,
He has to purify the inner man and create a new creature.
Psalm
51:12
Create in me a clean heart, God;renew in me a resolute spirit.His judgments are true and unbending towards the results of missing the mark
or
sin. For Hebrews believe sin is
related to an archer, who with their
bow and arrow
s--aim to
shooting towards a goal or a target.
It is called sin when the mark is missed--so we can see in this Hebrew idiom. This gives us a more accurate
picture
,
to try again when you miss the mark
,
the Torah corrects your aim.
Amid these continued
warnings and proclamations; Yahweh's character
is
being exposed to the reader as a just
judge
.
Punishment for sin
,
but remorse for judgments due to the unimaginable love Yahweh has for
His
children.So we learn that the
book
of Lamentations is
an
examples of directing one's emotions. That these emotions are necessary towards Yahweh
--in
order for the healing process of missing the mark can begin.
Learning to direct one's emotions as Jeremiah cried unto Yahweh.
All his emotions directed towards the one who could do anything for
any one
!
As we
also
learn a great deal of directing our emotions towards Yahweh
--He is t
he only one who could truly understand your emotions.
Being fully confident that the trouble doesn't last long after the judgment is ordered
, as
inevitable and must be.
In order for there to be established Kingdom living
--the truth, plain
and simple.
This is the type
of
living at home with active parents who love their children
and
have
placed
rules governing family living. Follow the rules life is great
, break
the rules consequences follow.
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