God's Faithfulness

Bible reading: Lamentations 3:17 – 26

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1)

Principle 3: Consciously choose to commit all of my life and will to Christ care and control.

“Happy are the meek.” (Matthew 5:8)

Perhaps were brokenhearted because of the bitter suffering in our family. Maybe our once good reputations have been ruined and now we’re ashamed. Our lives have been taken captive and destroyed before the watchful eyes of friend and foe alike.

Jeremiah watch this happened to his beloved nation, Israel. It’s no wonder he’s known as the weeping prophet. The people of God refused to listen to Jeremiah’s warnings and were taken captive by a heathen nation as a result. Lamentations is a record of Jeremiah’s lament over the shameful fate of God’s people. He weeps, “O Lord, all peace and all prosperity have long since gone, for you have taken them away. I have forgotten what enjoyment is. All hope is gone; my strength is turned to water, for the Lord has left me. Oh, remember the bitterness and suffering you have dealt to me! For I can never forget these awful years, always my soul will live in utter shame. Yet there is a ray of hope: His compassion never ends. It is only the Lord’s mercies that have kept us from complete destruction. Great is His faithfulness: His loving kindness begins afresh each day. My soul claims the Lord as my inheritance; therefore I will hope in Him. It is good both to hope and to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord” (Lamentations 3:17 – 26).

Turning our lives over to God includes giving him our pain and suffering. Got a strong and loving enough to lift our burdens and mend a broken hearts.

When all hope is gone we can entrust ourselves to God, remembering his never ending compassion.

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