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Lamentations chapter 4, verse 4.

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst.

The children bag for food, but no one gives to them.

This is a picture of the suffering that people were experiencing as

lamentations was being written.

And specifically, we've prayed in the light of this before,

specifically children who are begging for food and infants who are starving of thirst.

And there's a lot we could talk about here again in light of how we've prayed before,

just the effects of war and oppression and injustice and sinfulness and rebellion against God

on children in ways that we see around the world today.

But that's actually where I want to lead us to pray.

What are we doing to make the love and the goodness and the mercy of God

that we read about and pray according to in Lamentations 3,

what are we doing to make his love known to children in need like this today around the world?

I just can't read past Lamentations 4, 4 without pausing and praying for children who are

begging for food today, starving of thirst today.

God, we pray for your provision for children who are like this today in places like Yemen,

amidst war in Ukraine.

God in so many other places around the world where due to a variety of circumstances,

children are suffering and starving.

God, we pray for your mercy you may know and among them for your provision for them.

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