God gives us many gifts to enjoy, but He alone will finally satisfy the deepest longings of our hearts. Waiting pushes us to seek our contentment in Him.

God’s mercy will be there for you in eternity, and on Thursday. He doesn’t ask you to live on borrowed mercy from yesterday. He provides for every tomorrow.

The hard news of Lamentations is that the people of God must wait for the salvation of the Lord in the midst of suffering.

Even in calamity, there is a promise of good for those who belong to the Lord.

As we wait for Jesus' return, we must cry out to God for mercy, believing that He is faithful and will keep all of His promises.

Lamentations is one of many places where God says, without equivocation or embarrassment, that He causes hard things in people’s lives, in love.

Judgment is all around the edges of Lamentations. It encircles the sufferer. But, oh, the ground in the middle is good! It is solid ground.

She had been abandoned by her mother and lived in a state of transiency her entire life. We would be there for her, constantly.