Lamentations 1:1-2:22
My take-away: Lord, You get ANGRY when Your people turn away from You. "He wove my sins into ropes to hitch me to a yoke of captivity." (1:14) That is a powerful but disturbing word picture! It is we who provide the Lord--You--with the materials to fashion our own bonds. Conversely, of course, we cannot NOT sin, not without the help and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Whence comes Your anger, then, Lord? From not having us turn to You and be in relationship, devotion, with You. You do deserve all my worship (song!) and all my (pitiful) life (no bargain there) but You love to take things such as me and redeem them by recycling and renewing! Do that with me, please? I am on the edge of a new decade in my life, and I wonder about finishing strong and perhaps in a different direction. And do whatever needs to be done about my sins. I don't want to have them made into ropes to hold me in captivity.
In Jesus's name~~Amen. (Holy Spirit, do Your thing in my life!)
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