BIG IDEA
Lament beckons us to mourn the around us and within us and to in the God who saves us.
Lament shines a light on our hearts’ .
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give. A counterfeit God is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living. (Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods, p.xvii-xviii)
Sorrow comes from losing one good thing among others…Despair, however, is inconsolable, because it comes from losing an ultimate thing. When you lose the ultimate source of your meaning or hope, there are no alternative sources to turn to. It breaks your spirit. (Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods, p.x-xi)
Expressions of Idolatry in Lamentations 4
- Feasting on .
Lamentations 4:1, 5
- Feasting on .
- Craving .
Lamentations 4:2-4; 9-10
- Feasting on .
- Craving .
- See Others as .
Lamentations 4:7-8; 20
Lamentations 4:12-16
There is Hope! | Lamentations 4:22
Jeremiah 33:14-16