Dear saints in the Lord, Congratulations! You made it. We have been through much turmoil in the last year ('20-'21). But God is faithful to His promises. I trust that you have been blessed in your reading and have drawn closer to God. Since we didn't get the blog up and running at the beginning of the challenge, I am going to go back and post entries to cover that first month or so. Blessings, Jeff Nothing accursed in the city of God, the new Jerusalem. The presence of sin will be gone. I am working on memorizing Westminster Shorter Catechism and currently on question 82. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God but does daily break them in thought, word and deed. I think our passage today points to the truth of this question. Do you notice how this answer is not exactly the same as the question. "Any man" becomes "no mere man since the fall
Good morning fellow exiles and pilgrims, One more day of devotions. We are indeed exiles and pilgrims in this world as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks can serve as a reminder that this world is not our home. Blessings, Jeff The lamentations for Josiah written by Jeremiah. However, the book of Lamentations does not include any reference to Josiah as they are focused on the fall of Jerusalem. While these lost lamentations were "made the rule" there are only 4 more kings and none of them were good like Josiah and none died in Jerusalem. The phrase "to this day" generally refers to the time of the author (post exile). Taken together, it may be that these laments were for the last good king and during the exile the people were longing for the next good king. Zerubbabel in a way was the next good king as temple and Jerusalem were rebuilt. But Jesus truly was the next king and He was not