Today, I am reading and commenting on Lamentations 1-2.

I find the Book of Lamentations a bit depressing and usually struggle with what to write about it.  However, today as I read it, verse fourteen of chapter two really spoke to me:
The visions of your prophets
    were false and worthless;
they did not expose your sin
    to ward off your captivity.
The prophecies they gave you
    were false and misleading.
This verse tells us that that which happened to Jerusalem which led to the lamentations of this book resulted from the failure of the religious leaders to convey God’s words of correction to God’s people.  Thinking about that makes me wonder to what degree this may be true today.  Once more I will point out that most prophets are sent to God’s people.  So, are the prophets whom God is sending to the Church today calling out our sins?  Or, are they lying to us?  Are we listening to the prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah today?  Or, are we listening to those like those who argued that Jeremiah and Isaiah were wrong?  We need to be willing to those who expose our sin, rather than those who encourage us to sin.

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