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Lamentations 3:21-23

As we have been talking about suffering, I wonder if any of you have during a time of suffering taken a moment and told God how you honestly feel? We call that lament.

And I believe that we live in a culture that says things like, don’t cry over spilt milk. So we as a culture have forgotten how to lament. We have lost our capacity to cry out to God and express our deep emotional distress.

In the book Lamentations, Jeremiah describes his personal suffering during this dark time in his nation’s history. And yet, in the middle of his lament he makes a beautiful declaration of his hope in God.

Lamentations 3:21-26 (NIV) Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Jeremiah understood that even in our most trying circumstances we can trust that God will remain faithful and good. And remember yesterday, the account we read from Matthew, where Jesus took three others with Him into the garden? Like Jesus did, take people with you into your pain and suffering. Turn your pain and hardship into honest prayers and pray for God’s will to be done.