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Lamentations chapter 1 verse 20 look oh lord for I am in distress. My stomach churns. My heart is wrong within me. Because I have been very

rebellious. Thus begins this book,

this book, Lamentations, which laments the pain and the suffering that sin brings. So this book is different than Job for example where we see Job

suffering in a fallen sinful world but not directly because of any particular

sin in him. Actually, Job is suffering in spite of his righteousness, but here in lamentations we see suffering for

sin. This is the aftermath of God's people being driven into exile, destroyed by the Babylonians who have

taken over Jerusalem and invaded the temple. And this verse, verse, verse 20, is a lament over the effects of sin.

Look, O Lord, for I am in distress, my stomach churns. I am emotionally, spiritually, physically

in distress. My heart is wrung within me. Why? Because I have been very rebellious. This verse is a picture of the effects, the consequences, the result of sin in our lives.

Just think of moments when you know you have sinned and you feel so horrible for it and you feel the effects of it in your own life

in others lives how sin has hurt you how sin has hurt you, how sin has hurt others.

This is such a necessary part of repentance

to experience sorrow for sin before God.

And it's so important to express that,

to realize how dangerous sin is so that you grow to hate it all the more and so that you press in

to God's grace and mercy all the more. It is actually a very dangerous thing when we sin and we feel no remorse,

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