Friday – Prophets

Reading – Lamentations 4

Highlight Verse:

“Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.”
‭‭Lamentations‬ ‭4‬:‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Sorry, but I just couldn’t get this verse out of my head.

How desperate do you have to get to eat your own children?

It’s unthinkable!

Apparently, food was not the only thing they lacked. They suffered from a very serious lack of conscience accompanied by a lack of parental protective instincts.

I wouldn’t want to survive if it came down to sacrificing children.

Not a chance!

Yet, Jeremiah points out that even the tenderhearted women did this unspeakable thing.

If our society dissolves to the point of accepting that, we have some serious problems.

And we do.

…Have serious problems, that is.

You may think I’m speaking of the serious lack of morality in our society.

What I am more concerned about is the way we combat that immorality and hatred since that’s what we can control.

When we confront it with hate, we fan the flames causing more people to reject God.

When we confront it with love and compassion,

we quench the flames

as we quench the deep longing for love that so many people have.

What can you specifically do to quench the flames of hatred and immorality in our society?
Do you have hope left for our society?
How do you express that hope?