How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

What makes you cry?

It's an uncomfortable question to ask, isn't it?

Especially of men who often think that they shouldn't

cry. Yet today on through the Bible Dr. J. Vernon McGee tells us why godly people

should cry. Welcome to the small and strange book of Lamentations.

We have already met the author, the prophet Jeremiah,

and the word Lamentations actually means sorrow, or expressing grief.

And we're soon going to learn that Jeremiah was expressing grief over the destruction

of Jerusalem.

It was a city filled with people that he had pleaded with and prayed for for decades.

Dr. McGee says that Jeremiah reminds us of another who sat on a donkey and wept over Jerusalem.

The only difference is that Jerusalem was in ruins and the temple already burned when

Jeremiah sat on ashes and wept in the debris. Jesus wept over the

same city about 600 years later because of what was going to happen in the future and

both touched God's heart. What should Godly people grieve over? Have you ever thought

about that? Well, the same things that break God's heart and that's always lost people.

Let's pray. Lord, please break our hearts with the things that

break yours and help us now to listen to your word and do what you ask. In

Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Well, we're off to Lamentations chapter one on through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon

McGee.

Now friends, as we come here to this little book of lamentations it normally and naturally

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