Lamentations 4:1-12,21-22 One of the many reasons that I love the book of Lamentations is because of what the book does not do. It does not resolve the pain of God’s actions quickly or neatly. It doesn’t answer all of our questions. It doesn’t communicate things in a way that is tidy or even comfortable. And it does not downplay the significance of the struggle or the pain.

Lamentations is not linear. And that is why I love it. Life is not always predictable or easy to manage. Suffering, whether innocent or deserved, does not follow a formula, and grief is certainly not tame.  The emotions, questions, struggles, fears, and frustrations in the midst of hardship are very real and difficult, at times, to process.

Do you know that the Bible commends this kind of brokenness? Do you know that brokenness can create a God-ordained path to mercy?

By brokenness I mean when God removes the objects we trust  we are driven to hope in Him. It is a season where your “crutches” in life have been kicked out, and your only hope is God.  The result of brokenness awakens you to need God’s mercy.

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