Lamentations 5:20-21  Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.

While nostalgia for the "good old days" is frequently misguided, for Israel the "days of old" for which they yearned were usually the days of the Exodus. Those truly were good days when the Lord, in His mercy, rescued his people from slavery. In Lamentations, they cry out to God following the destruction of Jerusalem and exile to Babylon. Remember us! Restore us! Renew us!

We don't always need to be happy. There is room for lament in the believer's life. We cry out to God in tears, with shattered hearts. We beat on heaven's door. In his own time and way, our Father will answer. His immediate answer, however, will always be Christ with us, for us, in us. Bit by bit, Jesus will renew our darkened hopes with the light of his healing love.
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