“Worth Your Weight in Gold!” (Lamentations 4:1-4 NLT)
What happened? Their value had been reduced. How do you go from being precious gemstones to being worthless rocks in the streets? How do go from being worth your weight in gold to being as cheap as clay pots? How do you from being fine china to cheap paper plates? The very phrase “Worth Your Weight In Gold” means to be useful, helpful, valuable. But that wasn’t the case with the children of Judah. Their vaults had been robbed. Their verdict had been decided. Their virtues had been lost. Their voices were ignored. All because of Sin and Disobedience. The Babylonians had come and stripped them of everything. It’s been rightly said that “Sin will take you farther than you want to go; keep you longer than you want to stay; and cost you more than you’re willing to pay.” And saddest of all the sins of the nations affected the most vulnerable - the children, the youngest among them. Wake up, America! Proverbs 14:34 “Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people.” Wake Up, America! In the same week – you can’t find baby formula – people marching in the streets to keep killing babies legal. Wake up, America! Since SIN will eventually take away everything, Check your Contents!