No Lament

October 23, 2007


Jeremiah 16:5 KJV
(5) For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, evenlovingkindness and mercies.


A lot of people that I have tried to talk to about Christianity have asked me about how a loving God could let so many people die in attacks from the Hebrews when they took over the promised land. Even today's verse could come into question.

If we take every thing on face value, it does look like this is true. He is a loving God, how could He do this to people who did not know what was going on?

The truth is that He had warned these people, as He did the people that he tells Jeremiah not to mourn for. They did not follow the rules and were living lives that not o only did not glorify God, they also brought man up to a level of a god.

Do we ever do that? Do we ever put ourselves on a level with God? When we do, it is time to understand that punishment may be right around the corner. When God speaks we had better listen.