Category: Daily Word of God (விவிலிய முழக்கம்)

“Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth! A man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet all curse me.” –Jeremiah 15:10 Jeremiah wished he had never been born. He sat alone while others were partying (Jer 15:17). His pain was “continuous” and his “wound incurable” (Jer 15:18). According to the terminology of “pop-psychology,” Jeremiah was experiencing “burn-out” in his prophetic ministry. In contrast to “pop-psychology,” the Lord in the Scriptures means something very different by the term “burn-out.” “Burn-out” is a good thing. In fact, it is the meaning of life,...

“Let my eyes stream with tears day and night.” –Jeremiah 14:17 Many people couldn’t care less about the condition of the world, the state of the Church, the destruction of human lives, the breakdown of marriage and family, etc. They just stare at the TV and try to escape from reality through constant indulgence in petty pleasures. We should love the Lord and other people enough to pray: “Let my eyes stream with tears day and night, without rest, over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound” (Jer 14:17). When Jesus saw...