DEEP
Today's reading: Lamentations 3-5

"But I called on your name, Lord, from deep within the well and you heard me! You listened to my pleading; you heard my weeping! Yes, you came at my despairing cry and told me, Do not fear." Lamentations 3:55-57 NLT

Deep-extending far from some surface or area; in a place of difficulty or distress.

If you allow Merriam-Webster to help you, like I did this morning, you'll find a word relating to the word 'deep' that really hits home.

A word that resounds.

A word that speaks to my soul, my heart, my circumstances.

It's a word that makes this verse come alive and become mine.

The word given is 'abyss'.

Jeremiah says God heard him from deep within the well.

Jeremiah actually spent time in a well. A real well. A dried up well. It was his prison for a time. It was not a figure of speech, it was real.

You've probably not spent time in the depths of a well, I know I haven't.

But in an abyss?

A dark, low, lonely place where no one can help you?

A place that has dragged your soul deeper and farther than you ever thought possible?

A valley that never sees the sun, hope or joy?

A place that is a far distance from where you'd have ever wanted to be, ever thought you'd spend time?

Friend, God can hear you from there!

Cry out!

Call His name!

Whisper that prayer!

Know you are never too 'deep' that He cannot hear you!

Your abyss is not beyond His boundaries!