cires of pain

Good morning friends,
This is a shocking reading because Jeremiah laments even his birth because of the hardships of his ministry. This language is echoed almost exactly by Job in the early chapters of that great book. Again, we can take comfort that even our hardest complaint and our ugliest cries are not too much for God. We serve a God who comes close to us when we are most in pain.

God bless,
Sam

Jeremiah 20:14-18

14Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! 15Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, “A child is born to you, a son,” making him very glad. 16Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, 17because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great. 18Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?