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Grief and Pain in the Plan of God: Christian Assurance and the Message of Lamentations is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most of us will have faced that most delicate situation of meeting a person who is suffering. We tend to go down one of two different avenues—one is to offer well-intentioned advice: often in the form of well-worn cliches that the person will have heard several times before. The other is not to say anything at all: risking the danger of leaving the person under the impression that God has no idea...

Normally the acrostic was used to aid in memorizing and retaining the content and sequence of some written or oral material, but that will hardly prove to be the reason here.3 How could any Jew ever forget the loss and pain suffered in 587 BC? Rather, the purpose was to make sure that the grounds of the grief and suffering were worked through completely. No facet should be left out; every detail of the human tragedy must be itemized and expressed completely. Eugene H. Peterson has captured this truth
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