Jeremiah 20

Jeremiah! I hear you! You command praise with one breath, then cry out against your life in the next. But there's no going back for you, is there? Indeed, his words are a fire in your heart and a fire shut up in your bones. You cannot hold it in or it will consume you in your entirety. It's the most incredible, flustering, limb-shaking thing you've ever experienced. Yes, that is life. Your spirit pulling exact opposite of your flesh, with your skin threatening to rip right off of your bones. Praise God, Jeremiah! Curse the day of your birth! Speak of joy! Cry out in anguish in the pain you feel in every single bruise and cut that's been beaten into you for speaking only destruction over your very own people! But yes! Know your God hears you! You have true life. Embrace it then disown it, only to fall to your knees, pick it up, dust it off, and put it on again because it's the only thing you know that is worth living for. Be desperate and satisfied, yearning and content, rested and weary. There's nothing better.