Growing with the Lord

9/10/26  Thoughts on  Lamentations 3,4,5; Revelation 15 These passages present starkly contrasting responses to divine judgment—one wrestling with suffering’s meaning in the present, the other celebrating vindication from a heavenly vantage point. Similarities Both passages depict intense suffering and divine wrath. Lamentations 3–5 portrays the speaker as experiencing God’s relentless affliction—driven into darkness, besieged with bitterness, walled in with chains, pierced by arrows, and reduced to mockery and dust. Revelation 15 announces seven angels bearing the seven last plagues through which God’s wrath will be completed. Both acknowledge God’s active agency in judgment. Additionally, both passages ultimately affirm God’s character despite suffering—Lamentations declares that “because of the LORD’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!” ( Lam 3–5 ) while Revelation’s redeemed sing that God’s ...