_SHADOW AND SUNSHINE_ ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’ Lamentations 3:19; Lamentations 3:22 I. SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF, THE PROPHET PERSONIFIES HIS PEOPLE (Lamentations 3:1).—His description of the miseries through which they were passing is very pitiful—the wrinkled skin, the brok... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHADOW AND SUNSHINE_ ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’ Lamentations 3:19; Lamentations 3:22 I. SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF, THE PROPHET PERSONIFIES HIS PEOPLE (Lamentations 3:1).—His description of the miseries through which they were passing is very pitiful—the wrinkled skin, the brok... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘NEW EVERY MORNING’_ The Lord’s mercies … are new every morning. Lamentations 3:22 In the classical myths, Tithonus, a son of Laomedon, king of Troy, was so fair and winsome a youth that Eos, or Aurora, goddess of the morning, fell in love with him, and therefore prayed the gods to grant him imm... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE BEST PORTION_ ‘The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.’ Lamentations 3:24 I. THE LORD IS THE PORTION OF HIS PEOPLE. (1) The object of their supreme love. (2) The object of their entire confidence. (3) The object of their chiefest joy. II. THE QUALITIES OF THE PORTION. (1) It is suitabl... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOPE AND PATIENCE_ ‘It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.’ Lamentations 3:26 The organ at Freiburg, one of the most beautiful in the world, after the storm has vented itself, breaks into an exquisitely sweet refrain, ‘The Song of the Cows’; and in... [ Continue Reading ]
_THROUGH REPENTANCE TO FAITH_ Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.’ Lamentations 3:38 Nothing could be more dismal than the opening of... [ Continue Reading ]