PrayerBits
A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church
Wednesday
Scripture lesson: Jeremiah 8:18-22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Time to reflect: It is generally understood that Jeremiah is speaking here. If, so this is Jeremiah who has been abused, ridiculed, treated with disrespect and there had even been a murder attempt against him. Yet, instead of revenge, when his people suffer he suffers even more greatly in their behalf.
Moving through the day: We are each called, like Jeremiah, to challenge society but also to love it. Pray about where and how you are called to do both of these things.
O my Comforter in sorrow,
my heart is faint within me.
Listen to the cry of my people
from a land far away:
"Is the LORD not in Zion?
Is her King no longer there?"
"Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
with their worthless foreign idols?"
"The harvest is past,
the summer has ended,
and we are not saved."
Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;
I mourn, and horror grips me.
Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing
for the wound of my people?
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