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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...

3. In Its Purposes 1:12–17 4. In Its Confessions 1:18–22 Exposition and Application In a world filled with so much sorrow and pain, men and women—especially believers—must cope with grief. But how? Jeremiah, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, would aid us in coping just as he aided himself and the grieving Jewish community on the heels of one of the greatest tragedies ever to befall Israel. In one of the most tear-filled chapters of the five in Lamentations, Israel (and the believing community
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