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Lamentations chapter 5 verse 21

restore us to yourself oh lord that we may be restored.

That is such a loaded verse.

It's such a loaded phrase.

Just think about it with me.

Here we are at the very end of lamentations in light of sin and all of its catastrophic effects that have been lamented throughout this book.

The prayer that rises from the end is restore us to

yourself, oh Lord, that we may be restored.

Think about that.

Because there's so much that needs to be restored

among the people of God at this point.

Like their land, their families, well just everything, everything has been destroyed.

Everything needs to be restored, but where does it all start?

Where does restoration in any way begin it begins with

restoration to the Lord restore us to yourself oh Lord that we may be restored in all kinds of ways but all of it flows from

restoration to you God. This is a truth we see all throughout the Bible that we know from the very character of

God is the creator of our lives the author of everything that is good every good

gift in our lives what we need more than anything in this world is

restoration to God. For from God flows everything that we need but without God no matter how much we have no

matter how much we work toward restoration and all kinds of different ways in our

lives we will not be restored if we are in all kinds of different ways in our lives.

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