“Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.” Lamentations 1:8
November 10, 2025
Israel’s first Holocaust was when the Babylonian army destroyed the city of Jerusalem. It was catastrophic. Thousands were slain by the sword and thousands were exiled to Babylon for seventy years. The Poet begins his book with an exclamatory “How come?” Nations and civilizations die. We have questions about our own nation and the direction it is taking. The bottom line problem is sin. Something that the media and politicians do not want to talk about. Israel’s collapse was a result of sinful rebellion against God. This is the wisdom of Lamentations. Funerals and laments remind us that sin is serious. Voddie Baucham said it well, “We are not seeing terrible things in our culture because we vote the wrong way. We are seeing terrible things in our culture because men love darkness rather than light.” Every death, every injustice, every loss, every hurt, every tear owe their existence to sin. The dark alleys of wrong choices bring us to ruin. Israel lost everything of meaning, as did the nation that ultimately brought Israel down. What is our greatest need? A Savior. Pray the gospel, dear Christian, as you lament the moral disasters being brought down upon us.
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“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning” (Eccles. 7:4).