The book of Lamentations is not a comfortable read. It opens with a city in ruins. A people in exile. A poet sitting in the rubble of everything that once stood. Jeremiah isn't writing from a mountaintop. He's writing from the ash heap. And somehow, from that exact place, he arrives at one of the most quietly powerful declarations in all of Scripture. "Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness." — Lamentations 3:22-23 That's not denial. That's not toxic positivity dressed in religious language. That is a man who has seen the worst and still found something standing. The Context Makes This Stronger You cannot fully appreciate verse 22 without verse 19. Just a few lines earlier, Jeremiah writes: "Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall." He is naming real pain. Bitterness. Wandering. The kind of suffering that leaves a taste i...
Shining a light on someone by lighting their pathway home. By Joseph Kimanzi