i will hope in Him.

yesterday, thanks to my friend, danielle, i read a couple of chapters from Lamentations. it was exactly what i needed to hear...

"He has made my flesh and my skin

waste away;

he has broken my bones;

he has beseiged and enveloped me

with bitterness and tribulation;

he has made me dwell in darkness

like the dead of long ago...

I forgotten what happiness is;

so I say, "My endurance has perished;

so has my hope from the Lord."

Remember my affliction and my

wanderings,

the wormwood and the gall!

My soul continually remembers it

and is bowed down within me.

But this I call to mind,

and therefore I have hope:

The steadfast love the LORD never

ceases;

his mercies never come to and end;

they are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness.

"The LORD is my portion," says my soul,

"therefore I will hope in Him."

The Lord is good to those who wait for

him,

to the soul who seeks him;

It is good that one should wait quietly

for the salvation of the LORD

It is good for a man that he bear

the yoke in his youth.

For the Lord will not

cast off forever,

but though he cause grief, he will have

compassion

according to the abundance of his

steadfast love;

for he does not willing afflict

or grive the children of men.

Who has spoken and it come to pass

unless the Lord has commanded it?

Is it not from the mouth of the Most

High

that good and bad come?

Why should a living man complain

a man, about the punishment of his

sins?

Let us test and examine our ways,

and return to the Lord!

Let us lift up our hearts and hands

to God in heaven."

- Lamentations 3

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