Lamentations & Lamenting

Lamentations & Lamenting
Lamentations 3:1-26

Why God!?! Why?!?!

• Consider the work of God: Who can make straight what He has made crooked? (Eccl. 7:13)
• No man has power to retain the spirit, or the power over the day of death (Eccl. 8:8)
• Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity (Eccl. 12:8)

God never ducks the issues

I. Lamentations

1. Deep poems of pain…

2. …about suffering from A-Z

II. Lamenting

1. Crying-Out to the LORD—Prayers of Anguish

2. Confessing the Truth of the LORD—Professions of Faith

“Where else would we go? Only You have the words of eternal life.” (Jn. 6:68)

3. Conceding to the Will of the LORD—Patience in Waiting

Conclusion

Blessed are those who mourn; for they shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:4)