Friday, November 1, 2013

Lamentation

This week we worked through the book of Jeremiah and did an alternate assignment on the book of Lamentations. Our alternate assignment was to write a lamentation ourselves. I felt God wanted me to share this with you all, beyond my normal and weekly Psalm project, which I'll be posting later today. I hope this blesses you all!

Who Can?

Tommy Leinonen

Sorrow, sorrow! at the thought of time lost. A desolate heart too wounded to even grieve, surrounded by the reality of what is and what was supposed to be.

                                Who can save this heart?
                                                Who can restore it?

Too much has been taken to ever be brought back. What was supposed to be cannot be. There was hope all along the way; a hope rejected by those who needed to hear it the most.

                                Who can redeem those who refused to listen?
                                                Who can take the broken and make something new?

All paths have been chosen except the one which promised life. All roads have been travelled despite the numerous warning signs.

                                Who can bring the lost back?
                                                Who can go to the end of each path simultaneously?

Desperation is what those who have chosen their own path feel. Nothing else consumes their thoughts; nothing else remains but the need for redemption despite their constant rejection and refusal.

                                Who can do it?
                                                Who wants to do it?

The rejected One stands at the end of each path, arms open wide, blood streaming from His hands. The rejected One still remains, broken in order to make new again.
                               
                                Who can bear it?
                                                Who can withstand it?

The rejected One bleeds for the sorrow that was not meant to be. The rejected One endures the humiliation of the billions that have rejected His pain.

                                Who can refuse to listen?
                                                Who cannot bow?

The rejected One cries for the loss which has been chosen; the loss which could have been avoided. The rejected One pleads to be remembered; pleads for their surrender; pleads for their attention.

                                Who can look away?
                                                Who can forget?

The rejected One lays Himself down for the weakest to pass over. He bridges the gap that no man could cross.

                                Who can neglect it?
                                                Who can get around it?



                                                


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