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How?

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How?

James Granger

Lamentations

The word, “lament”, means to have a cry of sorrow. There are many causes for the laments of people all around the world. Pastor James Granger goes through the book of Lamentations and teaches how the effects of sin cause the brokenness and suffering we face today. Nevertheless, through Christ, we are able to face this pain and have hope that one day we will be in a place with no lament.

Lamentations

Watch Watch
Watch
Listen Listen
Listen

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23

 

There are moments that the words don’t reach
There is suffering too terrible to name
You hold your child as tight as you can
Then push away the unimaginable

And I pray
That never used to happen before

“It’s Quiet Uptown” – Hamilton

 

Eichah – How? How is this possible?

How lonely sits the city
that was full of people!
How like a widow has she become,
she who was great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave.

Lamentations 1:1

 

Jerusalem sinned grievously;
therefore she became filthy;
Her foes have become the head;
her enemies prosper,
because the Lord has afflicted her
for the multitude of her transgressions;
her children have gone away,
captives before the foe.

Lamentations 1:8, 5

 

My eyes are spent with weeping;
my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out to the ground
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because infants and babies faint
in the streets of the city.

They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.

Lamentations 2:11-12

 

Lamentations 1:13 “I am stunned, faint all day long”
Lamentations 1:16 “My eyes flow with tears”
Lamentations 1:20 “My stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me”
Lamentations 1:22 “My groans are many, and my heart is faint”
Lamentations 2:11 “My eyes are spent with weeping”

 

Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which was brought upon me,
which the Lord inflicted
on the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 1:12

 

If I could spare his life
If I could trade his life for mine
He’d be standing here right now
And you would smile, and that would be enough
I don’t pretend to know the challenges we’re facing
I know there’s no replacing what we’ve lost

“It’s Quiet Uptown” – Hamilton

 

The Lord has done what he purposed;
he has carried out his word,
which he commanded long ago;
he has thrown down without pity;

Lamentations 2:17

 

God is appalled by death, so I cannot fit it all together by saying, “God did it,” but He is God, so neither can I say, “there was nothing He could do about it.” I cannot fit it together at all. I can only, with Job, endure. I have no explanation. I cannot fit these pieces together. I do not know why God would watch him fall. I do not know why God would watch me wounded. I cannot even guess.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

 

But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”

The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.

Let him sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
let him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope;

Lamentations 3:21-29

 

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Matthew 27:46

 

There are moments that the words don’t reach
There’s a grace too powerful to name
We push away what we can never understand
We push away the unimaginable
Forgiveness, can you imagine?
Forgiveness, can you imagine?

“It’s Quiet Uptown” – Hamilton

 

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23

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