Should We Rejoice Today Over Babylon?

I was reading God’s “message” to Babylon in Jeremiah 50 when I paused at verse 11:

“Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions,”

Jeremiah 50:11 (NIV)

I was reminded of the Christian persecution in Nigeria and elsewhere, even here in the United States, where people openly mock God while subtly and not so subtly persecuting those with Christian values. I can only imagine what’s next.

Reading

your poetry
a spark
flaring—

Glimpsing

scrawled words
broken images
filtered, between
layers
of ash,
billowing—

A light beams…

Who Is This Asaph I Hear?

I read Psalm 79 today, as I do every year. After checking a note I made several years ago claiming that this couldn’t be the same Asaph appointed by David because it was written after the fall of Jerusalem, I paused and wondered, “Are you sure?”