Jeremiah wept over the
conditions of the people of Jerusalem. His tears would not stop
flowing and were like rivers running down his face. The horrors he
witnessed and the devastating circumstances could have been avoided
if only the people would have amended their ways. In chapter three
and verse fifty of Lamentations we see how the Lord involved Himself
in Jeremiah's tears. We read:
Till the LORD look
down, and behold from heaven.
The
verse begins, “Till the LORD look down,...” Jeremiah's
tears were so abundant that he notices in some manner the “the
LORD look down”. As though He opened the curtain of heaven to
peer at Jeremiah below, God appears to see Jeremiah's tears. Like
mentioned in the book of Proverbs in chapter fifteen and verse three:
The eyes of the LORD
are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
The
verse goes on to say, “...and behold from heaven.” As
though he needed to repeat the idea, Jeremiah continues to notice the
watching of the Lord by adding the phrase “and behold
from heaven”. Though Jeremiah
knew God was among them, it felt that he was distant and needed to
“behold” which
means “to see, look at, inspect, perceive, or consider”
from His heavenly perspective. Jeremiah's tears caused him to look
up, and by looking up, he saw the Lord looking down.
How many times have our
tears caused us to look down and believe the Lord was not watching?
Perhaps we have circumstances in our lives that bring tears to our
eyes and cause us to weep? Let us take heart in this, the Lord is
watching, and His all encompassing eyes miss nothing we endure. The
indictment of Jeremiah might have been that God did not care or was
indifferent to his circumstances, but when he noticed the eyes of the
Lord looking upon him he had hope. The Lord's eyes give us hope as
well, and the next time we weep over people or situations, let us
remember, God loves us so much that He cannot take His eyes off us.
Next
time we see how Jeremiah's eye affected his heart, so read ahead, and
we shall join together then.
Until
tomorrow...there is more...
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