Lamentations (Part 3) – Lamentations 3:1-66
Our study is not about
Our study is about our journey to
Lamentations will yield very few, if any, abstract or philosophical “answers” to the problem of suffering…Instead of explaining pain, it helps us to face grief. —Walter Kaiser
22The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. 23Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. —Lamentations 3:22-23
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20I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. —Lamentations 3:20
The despair is present.
We remember.
21Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: —Lamentations 3:21
22The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. 23Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. —Lamentations 3:22-23
The faithful love and never ending mercies signify that our Lord is present with us.
24I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in Him!” —Lamentations 3:24
Inheritance:
Hope may not give answers, but it provides
6As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. —Colossians 2:6-7
This stability comes from receiving God’s grace through Jesus and allowing the Spirit to root you.
6But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. —James 1:6
This stability comes from asking for wisdom in order to work through various trials.
24Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. —Matthew 7:24-25
This stability comes in the midst of the wind, rains, and floods. You will make it through.
Hope will travel with us as we head back down in the
These apex moments of hope do not emotionally last but they theologically last.