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  • Verse to DATE the Word on March 26 (3/26) is Lamentations 3:26

    Verse to DATE the Word on March 26 (3/26) is Lamentations 3:26

    Our verse to DATE the Word on March 26 (3/26) is Lamentations 3:26
    Lamentations 3:26 says, “It is good to wait quietly for deliverance from the LORD.”  
    WAIT!!!  DO what is GOOD for you!

    As I read Lamentation 3:26 I think about times I was told to do what was good for me.  I was told that eating green beans, carrots, spinach, and beets was good for me. YEAH???  I struggled with eating what was good for me!!   What about you? What were some things you were told to do as it would be good for you yet like me you really did not like what was good for you?  

    I am going to be very transparent and say that Lamentations 3:26 is a challenging verse to me,  and probably to you as well because it tells us that there is something that is good for us yet doing what is good for us is so very hard to do. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to wait.  WAIT is a four-letter word to me!   And this verse does not just say WAIT – it says to WAIT QUIETLY.  

    So here is the truth from Scripture that we need to KNOW: Waiting quietly is good for us.

    If you are not struggling with the truth of waiting quietly is good for you then I say good for you.  However, I hope you will be okay with WHEN you are to wait quietly.  The WHEN of WAITING QUIETLY is when we are in some type of trouble, and we need deliverance.  It is when we are facing some danger and we need help. At a moment when there is something FEARFUL, we are called to hope and wait QUIETLY for the LORD to work. Challenging? It is for me. When I need an answer, I need an answer.  When I need a solution, I need a solution.  When I need help, I need help.  I do not want to be in the WAITING ROOM LONG! How about you?  

    As impatience in the waiting room grows there comes the whisper of Scripture, remember Lamentations 3:26.  It says, “It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.”

    Okay, let’s look a little deeper about waiting, waiting quietly.  I have some questions and maybe you do as well.  WHY SHOULD I WAIT?  WHAT DOES WAITING LOOK LIKE and WHAT WILL BE THE RESULTS? This idea of waiting is not just found here. You have probably been challenged by Psalm 37:7 “Rest in the LORD, and WAIT patiently for Him;” The Hebrew for rest is to sit silently still. No pacing the floor! No screaming. No tossing in the bed.  No telling God to hurry up.  With the waiting is the RESTING.  RESTING ON GOD!  HOPING IN GOD!  It is placing the “whatever is troubling you” in the hands of God and then being PATIENCE for Him to PERFORM!  

    You have probably read another verse on waiting. Isaiah 40:31 tells us the WORK that God does as we WAIT!  It says, “But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”  

    With Isaiah 40:31 I can now see how it is GOOD to WAIT, to WAIT QUIETLY!  

    Are you growing in hoping and waiting quietly? Are you growing in resting – committing your life needs to the Lord and waiting for Him to work? 

    Verse to DATE the Word on March 26 (3/26) is Lamentations 3:26. It says, “It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for deliverance from the LORD.”

    I have found God waits for me to wait.

    Continue Strong WAITING QUIETLY on the LORD
    And remember to DATE THE WORD
  • Verse to DATE the Word on March 22 (3/22) is Lamentations 3:22

    Verse to DATE the Word on March 22 (3/22) is Lamentations 3:22

    Our verse to DATE the Word on March 22 (3/22) is Lamentations 3:22
    Lamentations 3:22 says, Through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.

    For the vast majority, it seems, it is very difficult to understand and truly comprehend God’s feelings toward sin. This may include you.  God’s Word clearly conveys that God is holy. He is righteous. He is pure. It teaches, clearly teaches, that God is a consuming God.  Hebrews 12:29 says, “For our God is a consuming fire.” God’s Word teaches that He pours out His wrath – yes – WRATH on the sons of disobedience. For instance, we read in Colossians 3:6 “Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.”  In 2 Chronicles 29:8 we read, “Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.” 

    Against the backdrop of God’s wrath is Lamentations 3:22 where God is merciful. It is His mercy and His compassion toward us that allows us to continue to exist. Because of mercy, WE ARE NOT CONSUMED. We are not wiped out. As He extends mercy, He DOES NOT GIVE US WHAT WE DESERVE!  With His compassion comes patience with us that quite frankly is hard to comprehend.  Psalms 103:14 says, “For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.”

    As we consider His mercy I remind you that it is His mercy that brings us salvation. I encourage you to read slowly Ephesians 2:4-7.  “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” 

    Our sins so offend God.  We deserve His wrath and deserve to be consumed.  We have no right to expect mercy or compassion or His patience. Yet He extends mercy and does not give us what we deserve. How do we not worship and praise Him? How are we not filled with adoration and gratitude? What a Savior!

    Verse to DATE the Word on March 22 (3/22) is Lamentations 3:22. It says, Through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.

    And as a reminder of just how good God is the writer added “They (His mercies) are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:23

    Continue Strong praising God for His mercies!
    And remember to DATE THE WORD