Lamentations 1:5 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
It is hard to be humbled. Even as I type these words, they feel like a colossal understatement. Being humbled involves realizing you were arrogant in the first place. It usually involves losing something important or valuable to the one humbled. It involves acknowledging that you are at fault, that your actions led to this miserable end.
Lamentations 1:7a In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old….
The process of being humbled is incredibly painful. It involves mourning, grief, and loss. But it can also lead to a humble and contrite heart, which can lead us back to God….if we allow, if we humble ourselves fully.
Lamentations 1:7b …When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.
Lord, I know You are at work in my heart. I know You are still working with me on humility, on laying aside my pride, on emptying myself of me so that I can be filled with You. I want this, too, but my fleshly humanity keeps getting in the way, keeps trying to wrestle back control. Help me, Lord. Amen.
Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
Have a blessed day.