Let the Righteous Shine

“Let my eyes stream with tears day and night, without rest.”

This is not polite religion.

This is not a comfortable prayer.

This is the cry of a prophet who sees his people wounded, hungry, broken, and spiritually lost.

Jeremiah looks at the field and sees death.

He enters the city and sees hunger.

He sees priests and prophets wandering in confusion.

He sees a wound that feels incurable.

And he cries.