Our end is come.
—Lamentations 4:18
The Lamentations of Jeremiah form a sorrowful book. Everywhere love and sorrow meet. In the portion before us souls cruelly persecuted await a terrible end. Hunted by those who were swifter than eagles, the people who are represented as watching in vain for help know that a brutal death is near. Can you not read pathos in the lament, “Our end is come”? What an end it must have been! How will you fare when your end is come? John Wesley declared that his preachers always died well. If we are to die well we must live well. Grace to die will be given at the last hour. What we sadly need is grace to live. God will care for the last weary mile of the road if life’s daily pilgrimage has been pleasing to Him.