Lamentations 5:19 (ESV Strong's)
But you, O Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures to all generations.
Subject: God's sovereignty
Lamentations is a book describing Jeremiah's pain and suffering and weeping over the fall of Jerusalem. He is bemoaning the taking captive of the people of Judah into slavery, captivity, death and peril. There is much pain describe in the book. Yet, at the end, the above verse is Jeremiah's conclusion. Through the tears in his eyes, Jeremiah can still see the power and the majesty of God. This is what faith is all about. Faith has to see God when all the circumstances says He is not there. When Jeremiah looked at the city the walls were torn down and the Temple destroyed. When he looked at the people there was death, dying and shackles. There was nothing to see with the natural eye that God was even real, much less cared for this nation as the apple of His eye. Yet, that is the natural eye. The spiritual eye sees God in the midst of all this suffering and conditions. Faith sees God despite the scene in front of us. We might see cancer with the natural eye, but with the eyes of faith we can still see a God who is working behind the scenes. We might see a car accident and death, like the natural world around us. But, the eyes of Faith sees God doing a work and rejoices in that work. God reigns!! That is the truth we hold when the world around is not making sense.
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