Lamentations is grief from beginning to end—a whole book written by people watching their city fall, naming their losses out loud, refusing to pretend the pain isn’t real.
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Lamentations is grief from beginning to end—a whole book written by people watching their city fall, naming their losses out loud, refusing to pretend the pain isn’t real.
Notice the tense. God doesn’t say, “I will make all things new,” as though newness is some far-off promise waiting for eternity.
There is a moment every gardener knows — that morning you walk outside and discover that the thing you thought was dead has put out a new leaf.
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
One of the most beautiful images in all of Scripture is not of us singing to God—but of God singing over us.
You cannot have a devotion about music without including Psalm 150.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)
