Title: When God is Against Us, Who Can Be for Us?
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Lamentations 3:1-24
CIT: Jeremiah feels that God is against him until he remembers the true nature of God.
Proposition: We can combat negative and depressive thoughts by setting our minds on the character of God.
Question: What do we do when we feel God is against us?
INTRODUCTION:
Blue Monday: The Most Depressing Day of the year.
With Christmas and New Year celebrations behind us, the cold, dark days of January can really get us down. January 16th has been dubbed by experts as the "most depressing day of the year." That would be next Thursday.
The term Blue Monday was coined by psychologist Dr. Cliff Arnall, who worked out a formula to show how the third Monday in January is especially bad. It takes into account factors including the average time for New Year's resolutions to fail, the bad weather, debt, the time since Christmas, and motivational levels.
For a lot of us, a lot of our friends and family members, It's not next Thursday, it's today, yesterday, tomorrow. Days of depression, discouragement, darkness. Days of feeling hopeless and empty.
We can be left feeling that God Himself is against us. We know all the Scripture verses, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" or Psalm 118:6-7 "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear."
But in our hearts, we wonder if God really does care. We ask why He allows all this hell into our lives.
Jeremiah was a prophet of God. A great man. A man with an intimate relationship to God. But he felt just the way we often do. In this passage notice how often he uses the words - "He has" to describe what he feels God has done to him. In fact, as we read, notice that he never mentions God's name. It's almost as if he wants us to understand that he feels abandoned and alienated from God.
Read the Passage:
Our question this morning, what do we do when we feel that God is against us? When our life ...
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Lamentations 3:1-24
CIT: Jeremiah feels that God is against him until he remembers the true nature of God.
Proposition: We can combat negative and depressive thoughts by setting our minds on the character of God.
Question: What do we do when we feel God is against us?
INTRODUCTION:
Blue Monday: The Most Depressing Day of the year.
With Christmas and New Year celebrations behind us, the cold, dark days of January can really get us down. January 16th has been dubbed by experts as the "most depressing day of the year." That would be next Thursday.
The term Blue Monday was coined by psychologist Dr. Cliff Arnall, who worked out a formula to show how the third Monday in January is especially bad. It takes into account factors including the average time for New Year's resolutions to fail, the bad weather, debt, the time since Christmas, and motivational levels.
For a lot of us, a lot of our friends and family members, It's not next Thursday, it's today, yesterday, tomorrow. Days of depression, discouragement, darkness. Days of feeling hopeless and empty.
We can be left feeling that God Himself is against us. We know all the Scripture verses, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" or Psalm 118:6-7 "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear."
But in our hearts, we wonder if God really does care. We ask why He allows all this hell into our lives.
Jeremiah was a prophet of God. A great man. A man with an intimate relationship to God. But he felt just the way we often do. In this passage notice how often he uses the words - "He has" to describe what he feels God has done to him. In fact, as we read, notice that he never mentions God's name. It's almost as if he wants us to understand that he feels abandoned and alienated from God.
Read the Passage:
Our question this morning, what do we do when we feel that God is against us? When our life ...
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