This was my quiet time passage today – Lamentations 3:19-30
“I’ll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I’ve swallowed. I remember it all – oh, how well I remember – the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there’s one other thing I REMEMBER, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope.
God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up. They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left.
God proves to be good to the man who PASSIONATELY WAITS, to the woman who DILIGENTLY SEEKS. It’s a good thing to QUIETLY HOPE, quietly hope for help from God. It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times.
When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. ENTER THE SILENCE. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst.”
I love some of the phrases in here – ‘passionately wait’, ‘diligently seek’, ‘quietly hope’, and ‘enter the silence’.
At first glance passionately wait doesn’t seem to make sense, but I like it. It is an active waiting. An expectant waiting. But not anxiously waiting. Because it is coupled with diligently seeking and quietly hoping. Nothing frantic or fearful in these verbs. All of them are wrapped in “just knowing”. Just knowing what is listed above – that God is good. That his love is loyal. That he is rich in mercy and gives it fresh with each new day. He is faithful. And he is madly in love with us.
And when we “just know” we can wait and seek and hope with a sense of peace, with the overwhelming knowledge that no matter what is going on around us or within us, he is there. He’s not going anywhere!!!!
Which makes the last phrase (my favorite!) something that we can actually do – “Enter the silence”. Walk into that rest, that peace, that “just knowing”. Walk into his open arms with expectant eyes,to see what he will do….
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