DCLM Daily Manna Tuesday, June 7 2022
TOPIC: God-appointed Afflictions
Text: Lamentations 4:13-22
KEY VERSE
“Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.” Lamentations 4:19
DCLM Daily Manna Tuesday, June 7 2022
There is a scriptural injunction which says that affliction shall not rise up the second time (Nahum 1:9). This was the prayer and heart -cry of Prophet Nahum for the people of Israel, when he saw the desolation his nation had suffered at the hand of the Assyrians. This prophet also dropped a bombshell that God “will not at all acquit the wicked” (Nahum 1:3).
Our passage reveals the persisting wickedness carried out by the priests and prophets who were supposed to serve God and His people. Mindless atrocities and shedding of innocent blood were common acts observed among the secular and religious leaders of the day. These men did not only take God and His laws for granted, they also scorned at everything holy and divine.
When men forget God and the truth, they certainly incur His wrath. It is understandably the reason God had to appoint strong and wicked persecutors who were “swifter than the eagles of the heaven” to pursue and carry away into exile, the Israelites who had become sinners in Zion.
God’s righteous standards are unchanging. He reserves mercy for the godly while the wicked continues to experience disappointments, defeat and death, except they repent. There are divinely appointed afflictions for the recalcitrant sinners. Take good heed to God’s word and commandments that you fall not into the wrath of the living God.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
The path of the wicked is always hard.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
1 Chronicles 25-29
