Some Favorite Quotes

  • “We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” - Maya Angelou
  • “Stuff your eyes with wonder...live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” - Ray Bradbury Granger in Fahrenheit 451
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Great is thy Faithfulness

Oct 9th, 2009 by admin | 0

Boy, is Lamentations a sad book! In one of the devotions in my Daily Walk Bible, it says “you can almost wring out the pages, so soaked are they with Jeremiah’s tears.” After all the guy has just spent years upon years warning his countrymen what is about to happen: the Babylonians are coming! And of course it does happens (otherwise Jeremiah wouldn’t be a very good prophet).

If you grew up in the church, you’ve probably heard the wonderful old hymn “Great is thy Faithfulness”. The title and concept behind that old hymn is even more ancient, coming straight from Lamentations. Calamity has come as God foretold through Jeremiah and yet there is hope. There is praise to be given to the Lord (as there always is):

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. – Lamentations 3:19-26

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