Lamentations 2: 11 "My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city."
Jeremiah was not always treated well due to the prophecies that God gave him foretelling the people’s destruction. God does not threaten as we parents do sometimes and not fulfill the punishment. He means what He says and is strong enough to know that without punishment your children lose respect and don’t think you will ever do what you say.
Jeremiah was a man with a huge heart. Even while prophesying God’s judgment, he longed for his people, his neighbors, to repent and serve God with their whole heart. Now with his own eyes, he sees the judgments being fulfilled. He is physically sick and emotionally overwhelmed at the pain and death that the people are going through.
What if we looked at our world, our neighborhood, our churches and had this deep pain and anguish at the results of sin? What if we loved enough to forget about our blessings enough to bombard heaven for the sins of our cities? Has anything so bad ever happened to you that you cried so much you thought you might die of a broken heart? Then you know, as I do, how consuming it is. Jeremiah had this heart for his nation. What do you need to pray for today? Put your heart into it.
Position yourself
• Get in and/or near God’s presence. If you can’t or don’t know how to get God’s presence, then go where you know it is. Church, youth, singles, friends, prayer time, worship. Samuel 3:3” The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. “
• Even the prophet of God knowing that this had to happen, did not stop interceding. Hear the voice of God today, get near Him, and be encouraged. Take your passions and pain to throne. “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Lord, let me hear your voice today and give me a heart that is longs for healing in the land and in the people. Amen
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