[스크랩] [리빙 라이프]Grieving in Worship

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2014.Dec. 04 Thu   Grieving in Worship [ Lamentations 2:1 - 2:10 ]

1. How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 2. Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor. 3. In fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it. 4. Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion. 5. The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah. 6. He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest. 7. The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has handed over to the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. 8. The LORD determined to tear down the wall around the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away. 9. Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the LORD. 10. The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Reflection Enemies of God (2:1–7) Lamentations is one long dirge or funeral song, written soon after the destruction of Jerusalem. After repeated warnings, God disciplines the people of Israel in love for their continued disobedience and utterly defeats them. Most of them experience some form of loss, destruction, death, kidnapping, or torture at the hands of the Babylonians. Three times, the author states that God is like an enemy or foe (vv. 4–5). The loss is so devastating that it is as if God has turned against His own people. This is our holy God’s attitude toward sin. He is not lenient toward evil; He is absolutely offended and appalled by it. But Paul says in Romans 5:10 that even while we were enemies of God, Christ died for us. God’s Abandonment of the City (2:8–10) Jeremiah the prophet predicted the destruction of Jerusalem in the book of Jeremiah, and these prophecies come to fruition in Lamentations. While the dirge begins with God’s general discipline of His people, this portion of the passage deals with God’s abandonment of the city. There are four principle things in which the Israelites place their trust that lull them into a false sense of security (vv. 8–9): the gates and wall which provided protection, the visions of the prophets, the law, and the king and princes. Even with sin in their midst, they believe they are protected and that nothing can happen to them. Now, stripped of everything they depended on, the Israelites are left naked. Application - What is your attitude toward the idols in your life? The more you grow in your relationship with the Lord, the more you should hate the things He hates and love the things He loves. - Beware of putting your trust in anything other than God. Relying on our own talents, successes, or even spiritual victories can cause complacency to take root in our hearts. A Letter to God Lord, I want to love the things You love and hate the things You hate. Grant me an utter disdain for sin. Burden my heart for the things that grieve You. I offer up my crutches and the things on which I depend. You are my only hope. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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