For the Children

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.

A lamentation is a weeping or a cry for something or someone.  I love the imagery in this passage – we are to pour out our hearts like water in His presence.

Water just flows when the container it’s in is tilted.  It doesn’t hesitate, clog up, or hold back, it just flows out.  That’s how we are to be in His presence, holding nothing back from him.  Just tilt our heads forward and let the cries out.

And here we read that one of our cries can be for our children – “who faint from hunger at every street corner.”  That’s a great picture of our children in America and other countries, today. 

Some are literally hungry, physically, in countries where famine and disease are rampant, or where children have no parents are left to beg.  Some are hungry spiritually because they live in a land full of things and what they need physically, but they are left to fend on their own when it comes to finding love, acceptance, and security.

We can cry out, pour out, and be assured that he receives and hears it all – when we cry for the children.

God loves the little children…all the children of the world.