In Podcast Episode 393, “When Tears Aren’t Enough,” Kim discusses the professional mourners of Jeremiah’s day and how God used the language of lament to warn Judah of the judgment that was coming. She explores the difference between simply grieving the consequences of sin and experiencing the kind of godly sorrow that leads to genuine repentance and a changed heart.
Our focal passage for this episode is Jeremiah 9:17-22.
This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says:
“Consider all this, and call for the mourners.
Send for the women who mourn at funerals.
Quick! Begin your weeping!
Let the tears flow from your eyes.
Hear the people of Jerusalem crying in despair,
‘We are ruined! We are completely humiliated!
We must leave our land,
because our homes have been torn down.’”
Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord;
open your ears to what he has to say.
Teach your daughters to wail;
teach one another how to lament.
For death has crept in through our windows
and has entered our mansions.
It has killed off the flower of our youth:
Children no longer play in the streets,
and young men no longer gather in the squares.
This is what the Lord says:
“Bodies will be scattered across the fields like clumps of manure,
like bundles of grain after the harvest.
No one will be left to bury them.”
WEEKLY ENGAGEMENT FEATURE:
This week, identify one thing you've grown spiritually comfortable with that God may be asking you to take seriously again, and spend intentional time praying, “Lord, help my heart care about what matters to You.”
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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Tyndale House Publishers. Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers, 2004.
Podcast recorded through Cleanfeed and edited through GarageBand. The soundtrack, entitled “Outlaw John McShane” was obtained from Pixabay.
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