Bible Reading: Lamentations 3:1-21
Key Verse: Verse 19 - “Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the
gall.”
Key Words: Remembering mine affliction
Have you
ever felt as Jeremiah did? Jeremiah
said...
Ø (verse 1) that he had experienced
God’s wrath,
Ø (verses 2, 6) that he was living
in spiritually dark times,
Ø (verse 3) that God was against
him,
Ø (verse 4) that he was growing
old,
Ø (verse 5) that he was in gall and
bitterness, and
Ø (verse 7) that he was trapped.
The list goes on and on, but
Jeremiah did not end with gloom and doom.
Jeremiah finally changed his thinking in verse 21, “This I recall to my
mind, therefore have I hope.” In the
remaining verses we see Jeremiah’s hope.
Your attitude toward affliction
will determine what you accomplish for God.
Affliction never leaves you the same; it makes you bitter or
better. It leaves you better when you have
spiritual goals in mind and understand that affliction is a part of reaching
that goal. Remember, great goals require
great affliction. Small goals require
little affliction. But you have to have
goals and know where you are going.
Thomas Henry Huxley was a devoted
disciple of Darwin, famous biologist, teacher, and author, defender of the
theory of evolution, bold, convincing, self-avowed humanist, and traveling
lecturer.
Having finished another series of
public assaults against several truths Christians held sacred, Huxley was in a
hurry the following morning to catch his train to the next city. He took one of Dublin’s famous horse-drawn
taxis and settled back with his eyes closed to rest himself for a few
minutes. He assumed the driver had been
told the destination by the hotel doorman, so all he had said as he got in was,
“Hurry, I’m almost late. Drive
fast!” The horses lurched forward and
galloped across Dublin at a vigorous pace.
Before long Huxley glanced out the window and frowned as he realized
they were going west, away from the sun, not toward it.
Leaning forward, the scholar
shouted, “Do you know where you are going?”
Without looking back, the driver yelled a classic line, not meant to be
humorous. “No, your honor! But I am driving very fast!”
What to do:
✞Keep your focus on God.
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