Read: Lamentations 4:1-5:22; Hebrews 2:1-18; Psalm 103:1-22; Proverbs 26:23
When everything is taken away from us it is hard to see beauty and appreciate it. In Jerusalem, everything was upside down. Dreams were shattered, security was gone and there was not hope.
The people had lost their love form God a long time ago and now they were being forced to act out their heartlessness. They were seeing their own selfishness play out as they preferred themselves over their own children.
The rich could no longer afford all their beauty treatments and shriveled up to look like the poor. Everyone was on the same level which was the dirt.
No one believed that Jerusalem could be taken. All the kings knew the stories of Moses and how he destroyed Egypt with the help of his God. But, Go had withdrawn his hand from his people and left them open for their enemies.
They had chose false prophets and priests and rejected God’s. This was the cost of their rebellion.
In Hebrews, we see the same message. The writer urges us to remember the stories of the Bible and heed their warnings. One-third of the angles in heaven chose to rebel with Satan and they are loved up awaiting their punishment (Jude)
God didn’t put the world under angel’s care but under Jesus’ authority. Jesus in turn put it under our authority. Jesus came down as a man to suffer and dies as a man, so that he could transfer his holiness to us as his fellow brother. He is now our High Priest who understands every temptation we go through. By dying, Jesus conquered death for us.
Lord, from our inmost being we praise you!
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