I have urged you to take Lamentations as a model for teaching you how to lament – how to mourn and pour out your heart before God.
Lamentations 3 clearly lays out the poet’s distress. And it is really important that we come to God in our distress – with the clear confession that God has done this to me! Some people think that God only does the good things – Satan does the bad things. That view offers no hope. Because it means either that God doesn’t want to help you – or that he can’t.
Lamentations 3 offers a very different diagnosis of your troubles: God has done this to you!
Lamentations 3 deals very forthrightly with the central problem of monotheism! If there is only one God – and that one God is all-powerful and all-knowing – then that means that everything that happens is under his control. And that means that the bad things – as well as the good things – come from God.
Lamentations 3 has a lot of echoes and parallels with Job. But whereas Job was the prayer of the innocent man – the Suffering Servant, Lamentations 3 is the prayer of the guilty man in his suffering....
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