KEY POINTS: You do not have to go through your consequences hopelessly. God shows us how to hope through our consequences.
In this lesson, God, through Jeremiah councils us to suffering through our consequences hopefully, instead of hopelessly. I encourage you to read the passages and follow along to the audio lesson.
How you process your own thoughts about your past, present and future, and what you do with your conclusions about your past, present and future, will determine if you choose to live through your consequences in hopelessness or choose to live through your consequences in hopefulness.
Below you will find some summary points from the audio lesson.
Psalm 137: 1-2 “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion….4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?”
Lamentations 3:1-18 “My strength and hope have perished from the Lord” I HAVE LOST HOPE.
Lamentations 3:1-19: Accept that you are suffering because of your sins, not because of the sins of the gentiles, not because God is testing you like Abraham and Job, not because you are in the remnant or the resistance.
Lamentations 3:20: Yes, there are good reasons to feel sad, broken, wounded, rejected, ridiculed, afflicted. Your soul should remember the glorious days when you were blessed because:
- You worshipped God in spirit and truth.
- You strived to live morally upright because of God.
- You trusted God above all gods and politics, to provide and to protect you.
Lamentations 3:21-33: but there is a time to remember, confess, to repent and return to God.
There is always time to hope, even while you are living through your consequences. It is not always easy. There is reason, we say that the last thing to die is hope. Because when hope is gone from our hearts, it soon leaves our legs, and we will stop walking towards what we once held as hope.
Lamentations 3:22-25. Even while they were going into captivity, and the smoke was still over Judah, God wanted His people to begin the healing process to return to scriptural worship, scriptural morality and Godly peace and security.
- Hope in God alone for physical and spiritual salvation.
- Wait on God alone for physical and spiritual salvation.
- Seek God alone for physical and spiritual salvation.
(c) Richard Nepaul 2023
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