March 06, 2005
Meditations
Hawaiian Evening on the beach
Lam 3:17 My soul has been rejected from peace. I have forgotten happiness.
Lam 3:18 So I say, My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD.
Lam 3:19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, the (gall) and bitterness.
Lam 3:20 Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
Lam 3:21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
Lam 3:22 The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
Lam 3:23 They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.
Lam 3:24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul, Therefore I have hope in Him.
Lam 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
Lam 3:26 It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
Lam 3:27 It is good for a person that they should bear The yoke in their youth.
Lam 3:28 Let them sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on them.
Lam 3:29 Let them put their mouths in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.
Lam 3:30 Let them give their cheeks to the smiter, Let them be filled with reproach.
Lam 3:31 For the Lord will not reject forever,
Lam 3:32 For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
Lam 3:33 For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.
Lam 3:34 To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
Lam 3:35 To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
Lam 3:36 To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.
Lam 3:37 Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Lam 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?
Lam 3:39 Why should any living mortal, offer complaint in view of his sins?
Lam 3:40 Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
Lam 3:41 We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
Jer 29:11 For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Jer 29:12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
Jer 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jer 29:14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.
Jer 33:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,
Jer 33:2 Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name,
Jer 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.