“This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” (vv.21-23)
Here, for the first time in the book of Lamentations, hope is allowed. Having sunk low in his soul (v.20), Jeremiah now remembered something that started hope within. One writer put it this way, “In a magnificent expression of faith in the unfailing mercies of God, Jeremiah looks to the distant future with renewed hope.”
Jeremiah remembered that as beat down and defeated the people of Jerusalem and Judah were, they were not yet completely consumed. There was still a remnant, and remnant with a promise of restoration. Spurgeon put it this way, Jeremiah seems to say, ‘Bad as my case is, it might have been worse, for I might have been consumed, and I should have been consumed if the Lord’s compassions had failed.’ Meaning, in the severity of God’s correction, His people endured - evidence of His compassions.
Today as we all look around us during this global pandemic while there is suffering and death, people are enduring, surviving, and there is hope for the future. So just as Jeremiah looked to the distant future with renewed hope, so should we.
The Truth: “But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
Here, for the first time in the book of Lamentations, hope is allowed. Having sunk low in his soul (v.20), Jeremiah now remembered something that started hope within. One writer put it this way, “In a magnificent expression of faith in the unfailing mercies of God, Jeremiah looks to the distant future with renewed hope.”
Jeremiah remembered that as beat down and defeated the people of Jerusalem and Judah were, they were not yet completely consumed. There was still a remnant, and remnant with a promise of restoration. Spurgeon put it this way, Jeremiah seems to say, ‘Bad as my case is, it might have been worse, for I might have been consumed, and I should have been consumed if the Lord’s compassions had failed.’ Meaning, in the severity of God’s correction, His people endured - evidence of His compassions.
Today as we all look around us during this global pandemic while there is suffering and death, people are enduring, surviving, and there is hope for the future. So just as Jeremiah looked to the distant future with renewed hope, so should we.
The Truth: “But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
