A NEW MORNING (8 OF 8)
by Keith Krell
Scripture: Lamentations 3:21-25, Lamentations 3
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A New Morning (8 of 8)
Series: Winning over Worry
Keith Krell
Lamentations 3:21-24
In the privacy of your own home, raise your hand if you've ever been deeply troubled by God. (Raise your hand, down a bit, then back up, and then slowly down.) That's a hard one to admit, isn't it? But we've all been troubled by God. Perhaps you've sensed that He was distant or didn't seem to care about your life or troubles. Maybe even today, during the calamity of COVID-19, you feel like God must be against you. As we're all walking through a difficult season, perhaps we're asking the question: ''Where is God when my life is such a struggle?'' We're going to look at the most appropriately named book in all of Scripture to help us answer this deeply personal question . . . the book of Lamentations.
Since many of us may not be familiar with this little studied book, I'll catch us all up. Lamentations is a fancy word we understand but pretty much never use or hear outside of church. It means collection of ''laments.'' To lament is to express deep regret, grief, or sorrow through words or actions. And if that wasn't sufficiently depressing . . . the book of Lamentations is actually a series of five funeral dirges. It's in the running to be the saddest writing in the Bible. The whole book is a poem of pain, a symphony of sorrow, a bag of bummers. (As you can see, I'm a fan of alliteration.) Lamentations has been called, ''the wailing wall of the Bible.'' It was written by Jeremiah, who is called ''the weeping prophet.'' About now you're getting worried. And you should; we're going to spend a good 30 minutes on this.
The Lamentations author, Jeremiah, began his public ministry when he was about 17 years old. He preached for 40 long, painful years. Furthermore, the poor guy was thrown on a dung hill, into a muddy cistern hole, ridiculed, laughed at . . . and experienced ZERO conversions from what we can tell. Jeremiah warned the nation of Judah that God would bring Babylon ...
Series: Winning over Worry
Keith Krell
Lamentations 3:21-24
In the privacy of your own home, raise your hand if you've ever been deeply troubled by God. (Raise your hand, down a bit, then back up, and then slowly down.) That's a hard one to admit, isn't it? But we've all been troubled by God. Perhaps you've sensed that He was distant or didn't seem to care about your life or troubles. Maybe even today, during the calamity of COVID-19, you feel like God must be against you. As we're all walking through a difficult season, perhaps we're asking the question: ''Where is God when my life is such a struggle?'' We're going to look at the most appropriately named book in all of Scripture to help us answer this deeply personal question . . . the book of Lamentations.
Since many of us may not be familiar with this little studied book, I'll catch us all up. Lamentations is a fancy word we understand but pretty much never use or hear outside of church. It means collection of ''laments.'' To lament is to express deep regret, grief, or sorrow through words or actions. And if that wasn't sufficiently depressing . . . the book of Lamentations is actually a series of five funeral dirges. It's in the running to be the saddest writing in the Bible. The whole book is a poem of pain, a symphony of sorrow, a bag of bummers. (As you can see, I'm a fan of alliteration.) Lamentations has been called, ''the wailing wall of the Bible.'' It was written by Jeremiah, who is called ''the weeping prophet.'' About now you're getting worried. And you should; we're going to spend a good 30 minutes on this.
The Lamentations author, Jeremiah, began his public ministry when he was about 17 years old. He preached for 40 long, painful years. Furthermore, the poor guy was thrown on a dung hill, into a muddy cistern hole, ridiculed, laughed at . . . and experienced ZERO conversions from what we can tell. Jeremiah warned the nation of Judah that God would bring Babylon ...
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