Today’s Word
Silence of the Lambs (6)
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.” Lamentations 3:24 NASB My portion – When everything is stripped away, what sustains you? That’s the kind of question Job had to ask himself. It’s the same question the people of Israel needed to ask when Babylon erased their world. Maybe it’s our question as…
Silence of the Lambs (5)
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him. Lamentations 3:25 NASB Discovering Despair – Hebrew Scripture uses two words for the concept of seeking. Translated identically, they actually have important differences. The two are bāqaš and dāraš. TWOT notes: Our word is distinguished from its frequent parallel and equivalent bāqaš (q.v.)…
Silence of the Lambs (4)
It is good that he waits silently for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:26 NASB Salvation – The goal of silence is freedom. Really? Do you experience silence that way? Or is silence a fearful thing, a place where you just don’t have any answer to your puzzles, a place where God was jailed for vagrancy and…
Silence of the Lambs (3)
It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 NASB Yoke – This is not a “my yoke is easy” verse, The loss of an entire nation is a heavy price to pay. The burden isn’t light. Since Lamentations is reflection on the exile and the destruction of…
Silence of the Lambs (2)
Let him sit alone and be silent since He has laid it on him. Lamentations 3:28 NASB Since – Like good Hebrew exegesis, we start at the end to discover the beginning. No sense beginning at the beginning since Hebrew has a way of turning the tale upside-down at the end. So let’s start where it ends in…
Silence of the Lambs (1)
Let him sit alone and be silent since He has laid it on him. Lamentations 3:28 NASB Since – Consider these words from Buechner: “What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.”[1] Aren’t they so true? Most…
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