Lamentations 3:19-24 God’s Got This One
Lamentations 3:19-20, “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.”
Looking back.
There are surely some ______________ things you remember from last year.
Not every memory is__________________. Psalm 51:17
Looking up.
Lamentations 3:21-23, “Yet I call this to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
The Lord doesn’t reject His own when they fail or sin, instead He offers ________________________ _______ _______________:
1 John 1:9
Three attributes of God on which hope rested:
- The Lord’s great _____________.
- The Lord’s unfailing ____________________________.
- The Lord’s great ___________________________.
Lamentations 3:24, “I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.’”
Looking forward.
The apostle Paul gives us some instruction how to personalize this
teaching from the OT:
Philippians 3:13-14
We live in a world that is cluttered and festered with _________.
God’s word gives us _______________________ for the future.
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