Excerpt from The Causes of the Soul: A Book of Sermons
"O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul." - Lam. iii. 58.
The Book of Lamentations is the outcry of one who felt, deep down in his heart, the need of help. I say "who felt," rather than "who had felt," because although the language of this verse, taken by itself, would seem to breathe wholly of triumph and thanksgiving, it is evident, both from what goes before and from what follows after in the passage, that the writer accounted himself to be still under pressure. The Lord has pleaded the causes of his soul. The Lord has actually and as a matter of fact redeemed his life; but running through the very gratitude itself there is a strain of plaintiveness, a pathetic undertone, that makes us say, "This man is not quite free even yet."
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