| Lamentations. |
[Oct. 17th, 2007|10:38 am] |
So, I was reading in Lamentations today. Really cool book. After I read a few chapters, I decided to pull out my handy commentary to get the down low on what I was reading. It's basically describing the destruction of Jerusalem. They think it was written by the prophet Jeremiah. One of the coolest things is that 3 of the chapters are written in alphabetical order. Meaning that each verse starts with the next letter of the alphabet. This would have helped with memorization (don't go running to your bible to look, the bible was not originally written in English, in case you didn't know).
The crazy part of the book is that Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would be destroyed. He basically told everyone this was going to happen. But, even though he knew, the book is just describing some of his sorrow for the agony that is all around him. He hardly makes any reference to his own prophecy because he is so consumed by the pain around him.
The other thing that struck me as I was reading was a character quality of God. We serve an honest God. He doesn't leave us in the dark about his hard to swallow justice. He inspired a book describing the torment that a man is going through after his city has been destroyed. Somehow, that is so comforting to me. If the bible only spoke of God's grace and mercy, I would feel so untrusting of who he really was. But God, in his perfect justice and judgement, holds nothing back. He has included so many horrific and tragic events in the bible. God is not like the dad who irks his responsibility of punishing his child. Or wants to forget the punishment handed down. He follows through, and then he leaves an obvious and lasting retelling of the horror that was. God never questions his judgement. It is good to serve an honest God. |
|
|
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
jumpin_jacks's journal
