What our sin deserves- Lamentations

I feel so guilty that I haven't been keeping up with reading the word of God. Instead I mess around on the internet or fill my time with other meaningless activities. GRRR my flesh is weak! Anyways I decided to read Lamentations (where I should be in my reading), and attempt to keep up and then go back I and II Kings and try to catch up. 

The fear of God was in me as I read Lamentations this week. It reminded me of what our sin deserves. 

Jeremiah has been called “the weeping prophet” because of the heartfelt sadness he expresses over the devastation of Jerusalem for her sins. Centuries later, the Lord Jesus Christ would weep over Jerusalem again, as He mourned her hardness of heart and anticipated yet another great judgment upon her. Sin promises fulfillment, happiness and contentment, and yet its promises are empty and hollow. In the end, the wages of sin is death, and the consequences of self-indulgence are a broken life and untold miseries. The people of Jerusalem learned this lesson the hard way.

I know that no matter how much I try I cannot be righteous without Jesus Christ. "No one is righteous, not even one" Hebrew 3:10

One of the great majestic names of the LORD God is “The LORD Our Righteousness” Jer. 33:16

Jesus Christ is our righteousness. 1Corinthians 1:30 

We do not and cannot attain a right relationship with God in our own righteousness because our self-righteousness is as filthy rags.  We are guilty sinners in the need of a perfect righteousness. 

When we speak of Christ our righteousness, we are using a great forensic term referring to our acquittal by God.  All that we have as Christians we have received as a free gift of God through Jesus Christ.  We are justified once and for all by grace through faith in Christ.  It never has to be repeated because it is a non-repeatable event.  When we are untied to Christ, we have a righteous and holy standing before God.  We are “in Christ.”  We have a vital union in Him.  We enjoy a right relationship with God because of the finished work of Christ on the cross.  Christ is the basis of our perfect acceptance with God (2 Cor. 5:21).

Lamentations was a wonderful and fearful reminder of what my/our sins truly deserve but what we don't have to go through because of the love of Jesus Christ our Lord and savior.