How Much Do We Care?

We encourage you to join the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem for their Easter Service, 6:30AM Israel time, Sunday April 1 which is 9:30PM Saturday March 31 Mountain Time in the US.  There will be a link on their web page, www.GardenTomb.com.
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(#861, Imperial, 1960, 1967)

Read Lamentations 1:8-13.

Our text comes from the laments of Jeremiah as he weeps over the destruction of Jerusalem, the Holy City.  Judah and Jerusalem had been laid waste by Babylon. They were in trouble.

w    She became as a widow (v1).

w    She was comfortless (v2).

w    The feasts were abandoned (v4).

w    Her beauty had departed (v6).

w    She had grievously sinned (v8).

Out of her trouble came the cry, "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?" (v12)  The nations seemed unmoved by Judah's plight. 

This text can also be used as the cry of a lost world -- a world in darkness, doubt and death.  The world is crying: "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?"  So few are disturbed about the awful condition of people without Christ.  Christians seem unmoved by the conditions of the lost.  We are calloused.

Is it nothing to you that every man, woman and child outside of Christ is condemned already and is dead in trespasses and sins?  If we believe that God's Word is true and that men are lost and bound for an awful eternity, then how much do we care about souls?  God cared enough to send His Son.  Christ cared enough to die for our sins.  Someone cared enough to tell you about Christ.  What is the level of your care?

ƒ      Do you care enough to dedicate yourself to the Lord?  Are we seeking to hang on to our own life?  Or can we say with Paul, "Lord, what will you have me to do?"  Or with Isaiah, "Here am I Lord, send me!"

ƒ      Do you care enough to give?  Often it seems that those bound by superstition and fear give far more than we who are set free from sin and guilt.  Our love for money may, in fact, hide the face of God and the pleading faces of a lost world.

ƒ      Do you care enough to pray?  More is accomplished by prayer than we ever dream.  When Christians pray souls are saved.  But prayer is hard work and selfishness will have to be put aside if we are to pray effectively.

ƒ      Do you care enough to witness?  Do we care enough to speak to others about the Saviour? 

Is it nothing to you -- all you that pass by?