This I Recall To My Mind - General Preaching

Lamentations 3:18-21 serves as the "hinge" of the entire book. After 17 verses of agonizing detail regarding his suffering and God's apparent silence, Jeremiah reaches his lowest point in verse 18: "My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord." However, the sermon explores the radical psychological and spiritual shift that occurs in verse 21. By purposely choosing what he calls to mind, the prophet moves from the suffocating weight of his circumstances to the liberating truth of God’s character.