*Today’s Scripture Threshing*for Saturday, March 9, 2019
Today’s Text: Lamentations 5:1-22
*Key Verse:* Lamentations 5:21 (ESV): “Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.”
The night I arrived C. H. Spurgeons’ school in South Norwood Hill, Croydon, London, apart from the excitement of being in the very school that the prince of preacher (as Spurgeons is called) himself founded, one unforgettable experience for me was an inscription hanging on the wall of the student lounge, which reads, “Scriptures are the volume of hope!” I can’t explain how much I was touched by this.
Yes, God’s words takes care of our hopelessness! When they find us in the slot of despondency; they never leave us there. They may rebuke us for ever being in the slots, but they also take care of our despair. O yes, we may be so soiled and spoiled but we have assurance of being washed by the word. Deep as Israel’s degradation was, far as they had wandered from God's ways, inexcusably as they had defied his authority, God never left them without an opportunity for repentance. That’s why the prophet Jeremiah, even though he was full of lamentations for the fall and failures of the Jewish nation, yet his confident supplication was grounded in hope that better times and things are ahead.
We are utterly unable to heal our spiritual wounds by ourselves, but we do have the opportunity to turn to God, and turn from sin. Even when we tried and our strength fail us, we can follow Jeremiah’s example, and thrust ourselves upon divine intervention and assistance if we cry, “Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned!” We must realize we cannot help ourselves. There is nowhere else to turn and no one else who can help. We cannot even repent with genuine tears, by ourselves, unless God’s word washes our stained hearts and provokes a new desire to walk in God’s way, in us.
Today, would let yourself be so moved by the grace of God? Or do you feel too obstinate that you think God’s love cannot melt you? Remember that God promises that even though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Remember how the obstinate Saul of Tarsus, the Pharisee, was won by His gracious work. If you cry to God today, you will experience His irresistible grace turn you by His Spirit. The resistance of your cold heart shall crumble before the warm rays of God's goodness. Turn to Him, and see Him turn you.
Quote for the Day: “Turning to God must be 360 degree turn, a complete circle of change, in and out, a revolution against self.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear LORD, create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
With all my Love and Prayer,
Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),
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