From Pain To Praise

We have spent some time this month looking at what lament is, how we lament, and how our pain meets hope. We’re going to look today at the destination of our laments. Praise should be the result. Praise in the midst of pain is probably one the most difficult things we are called upon to do as Christians. Is it possible to praise God even in the midst of pain? Yes! The book of Lamentations is testimony to this. This short book, written by Jeremiah, chronicles the weeping prophet’s deep grief as he mourns the destruction of his beloved Jerusalem in 586 BC. He not only predicted it’s destruction, but was also an eyewitness to it as well. It was a time of unfathomable distress and anguish, when evil seemed to reign, and the future looked impossibly bleak.