NOTES for Bar 1:15-22
15 And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, |
16 And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers: |
17 For we have sinned before the Lord, |
18 And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly: |
19 Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice. |
20 Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day. |
21 Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us: |
22 But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God. |
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How much strength it takes to communicate with someone on whose side there is truth, when on your side there is shame. And not only to communicate. To come and ask forgiveness is hard enough. And how hard it is to accept forgiveness. How much one has to overcome within oneself in order then to continue communicating with, being friends with, or loving a person on whose side there is truth, when on your side there is shame. And if this situation repeats itself day after day? The natural human reaction to this is flight. One wants to find a place where nothing reminds one of shame over oneself. A place where one can at least avoid seeing the person one hates because that person lets one see oneself without embellishment.
One can leave a person, one can try to forget everything and start everything over, hoping it will not happen again. But where can one go from God? After all, on only one side of the coin is written, "To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us shame." On the other side one can read no less plainly: "Whoever rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me." This does not deprive us of the ability to choose how and with whom we will live, but it shows us very clearly what pit we will fall into if we decide after all to live without God.
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