But. ( Isaiah 40 )

The last chapter of  Lamentations describes the suffering the people were experiencing ,as you can imagine it was dire.The chapter begins,'Remember , O Lord,what has befallen us', C. Wright writes,''When God remembers, it is not because God has forgotten. Rather it means that God will now take action on the matter he chooses to remember'.All privileges had good,everything had changed, as I said ,it was dire,yet in the midst of the doom and gloom, Jeremiah prays,it starts with the words,'But you, O Lord.'.C . Wright, calls the but, a massive  'Pauline But', we see it in Ephesians 2, were Paul describes,the state of the Christians, before they met Christ, this description can also be described as dire.they had been,'dead in trespasses and sins,followers of worldly pursuits,following the dark side, ruled by their sinful nature,children of wrath,like everyone else'. It is then, that the but comes in,'But God who is rich in mercy,out of His great love which he loved us,even  when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ '. Jeremiah in his prayer, in the words of C. Wright,''Reaches its climax in an astounding leap of faith across the chasm of defeat,destruction and death. The prayer reaches out  from the ruins of God's dwelling place on earth and touches the eternal  throne of God in heaven''.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               When things are dire remember the                                                                                                                                But.