Jeremiah 30:15 KJV
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Although I find a lot to be hopeful of in chapter 30 of Jeremiah, this is a passage that slaps us alongside the face. This is a generation of Jews who had begun and were about to go through some very difficult days. Of course they complained about them; nobody enjoys affliction. But God confronts them is blunt terms that ought to wake us and cause us to take note.
God said they had no good reason to cry. All of their sorrow was the result of their own iniquity and sins. It had come upon them because they had not obeyed the Lord at all.
This passage does not make going through sorrowful times any easier for us, but it is still the truth. Our sorrows come upon us first, because we live in a world that mankind allowed sin to enter, secondly because we so often choose to sin rather than to do the obedient thing ourselves.
Whenever we go through times of sorrow we need to use that experience to pull us back into a walk with the Lord. Rather than crying over our troubles, lets instead turn to the Lord in our troubles.
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Although I find a lot to be hopeful of in chapter 30 of Jeremiah, this is a passage that slaps us alongside the face. This is a generation of Jews who had begun and were about to go through some very difficult days. Of course they complained about them; nobody enjoys affliction. But God confronts them is blunt terms that ought to wake us and cause us to take note.
God said they had no good reason to cry. All of their sorrow was the result of their own iniquity and sins. It had come upon them because they had not obeyed the Lord at all.
This passage does not make going through sorrowful times any easier for us, but it is still the truth. Our sorrows come upon us first, because we live in a world that mankind allowed sin to enter, secondly because we so often choose to sin rather than to do the obedient thing ourselves.
Whenever we go through times of sorrow we need to use that experience to pull us back into a walk with the Lord. Rather than crying over our troubles, lets instead turn to the Lord in our troubles.
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