Condition of the Lost Soul is misery and judgement

Within the verses below, we see a picture of a soul that has no peace.  It is troubled to its very core and cannot get relief from the misery it is in.  This is the picture of the lost soul that this world is filled with.  It is a picture of the spiritual condition of our neighbors, friends, family and possibly the condition of someone reading this article.

Lamentations 3: 15-20, “He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.   And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.  And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:  Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.  My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

There is no peace to the lost soul.  There are many who try to dismiss this inner war they feel through various ways, but deep within they know there is no real calm.  They try all manner of living.  They surround themselves with others like them to justify how they feel.  But all is in vain.

A Christian who is backslidden is also in this condition, but there is a difference in the Christian and the lost.  Like the prodigal son, we may get into the pig pen for a time, but we will not remain there.  As Dr. McGee once said, “Pigs live in a pig pen; sons live in the house with the father.”

The child of God cannot stay in the pig pen any more than the pig could stay within the house of the father.  A true Christian may sin, but will not continue to live in that sin.  The soul of the Christian knows the peace the Lord can bring to his soul.

Lamentations 3: 21-26, “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.  It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.  The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.  The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.”

Look within yourself.  Is there real peace, or do you feel that inward struggle deep in your own soul?  The Lord is the only one who can bring peace within the lost soul of man.  He asks nothing but for you to turn from sin and trust in Him.

Are you a Christian who has gotten away from the Lord?  We all do from time to time.  If so, you know the peace the Lord can bring to you.

While the Lord Jesus Christ can and does bring us spiritual peace, we will still have troubles in our lives.  When He told the apostles to go to the over side of the river, He didn’t say they wouldn’t encounter a storm.  In fact, they encountered a very bad one, but the Lord was with them and brought them safely to the other side.