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Jason,
I think you may be asking for an overly simplistic way to address the text. The Lord does not intend for us to take the book as a devotional allegory where everything serves as an analogy for our lives.
The best thing you can do is to read the book in its context, draw out spiritual principles displayed in it, and apply them to your life.
Jason,
I think you may be asking for an overly simplistic way to address the text. The Lord does not intend for us to take the book as a devotional allegory where everything serves as an analogy for our lives.
The best thing you can do is to read the book in its context, draw out spiritual principles displayed in it, and apply them to your life.
I follow you here brother... Let me ask you a question, and this will help me proceed amd apply your advice:
When you read the following, what are some things that you learn from it (other than history) and hoe God engaged with the People of Israel in a context that has nothing to do with you (with your being on this side of the New Covenant):
[3] Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
and hard servitude;
she dwells now among the nations,
but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
(Lamentations 1:3 ESV)
You guys are silly. When I say "devotional", since Im a laymen and I dont know the proper word/phraseology, I simply just mean "what does that Old Covenant material have to do with me living in the New Covenant"...Devotional enough for you?
Jason,
I think you may be asking for an overly simplistic way to address the text. The Lord does not intend for us to take the book as a devotional allegory where everything serves as an analogy for our lives.
The best thing you can do is to read the book in its context, draw out spiritual principles displayed in it, and apply them to your life.
I follow you here brother... Let me ask you a question, and this will help me proceed amd apply your advice:
When you read the following, what are some things that you learn from it (other than history) and hoe God engaged with the People of Israel in a context that has nothing to do with you (with your being on this side of the New Covenant):
[3] Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
and hard servitude;
she dwells now among the nations,
but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
(Lamentations 1:3 ESV)
Calvin on the passage is instructive here:When you read the following, what are some things that you learn from it (other than history) and hoe God engaged with the People of Israel in a context that has nothing to do with you (with your being on this side of the New Covenant):
[3] Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
and hard servitude;
she dwells now among the nations,
but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
(Lamentations 1:3 ESV)