Today, I am reading and commenting on  Lamentations 3-5.

The writer continues with describing his depression.  He describes his suffering in detail which breaks your heart and starts to make me depressed because he experienced it.  Then he writes, “Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope.”  He goes on to tell us what he called to mind and why it gives him hope.  God’s compassion does not fail, it renews every day.  Put your hope in God and He will do good things for you.  When you face depression, when your world is coming apart, trust God and wait for His salvation.  We should not complain when we suffer punishment for our sins.  Instead, let us examine our actions and return to the Lord confessing our sins.  In the midst of our depression let us call upon the Lord.  He will hear us when we do, and tell us what He has told every generation which turns to Him, “Do not fear.”  I almost missed the other point about how God responds when we turn to Him.  When we cry out to God, He comes near to us.  A few people I know express how, when they are depressed that it feels like their prayers are bouncing off of the ceiling.  Well, that is why this is so important.  When your prayers are bouncing off of the ceiling, that’s OK because God has come near, right in the room with you.  The reason your prayers bounce off of the ceiling is because God is right next to you and they bounce off of the ceiling to His ears.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.