"If life is a bowl of cherries what am I doing in the pits?" - says Erma Bombeck. She had it right! I've been reading Jeremiah lately and his life was in the pits! He was beaten, he couldn't marry, he was called a liar, his life's work was burned, he was put in stocks and bonds, he had an unpopular message, and he was thrown into a pit! Can you imagine?
But in the middle of his lamenting crying and weeping he writes Lamentations 3:22-23 -
"God's loyal love couldn't have run out,
his merciful love couldn't have dried up.
They're new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He's all I've got left."
Life might be "in the pits" But God's faithfulness is new every morning. If Jeremiah can praise God in the middle of his disaster - so can I. Bring the cherries on! Let's make a pie.
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