In our culture we don't tend to lament well. There can be many reasons for this, including American "overcome all odds" attitudes, jumping too quickly to theological truths regarding God's sovereignty that, while true, can hinder our willingness to properly deal with devastating grief, and even the entire global attitude that has taken root for the past 700 years (ever since the beginning of the Renaissance) that, generally speaking, life is always going to get better for us over time.
So this Passion week, the book of Lamentations can actually serve for us as a recipe for lament, in order to assist us in feeling the kind of devastation that the disciples of Christ may have felt between His triumphal arrival into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and His sentencing, suffering, and death just a handful of days later. If we learn to grieve well, without wallowing in grief, we can only hope to feel even greater the wondrous joy of God's sovereignty and the amazing gift to humanity that His resurrection was then and still is today.
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Greg earned his M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Dec. 2021. He also holds a B.A. in Mathematics (UVA), an M.A. in Music Composition (UVA), and an M.S. in Meteorology (PSU).
Greg is passionate about digging into the deep truths of Scripture and then...
