123 Is Hope Reasonable?
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Many people with a history of trauma find themselves stuck. Stuck in a place of hopelessness about our own healing. It’s this sense of “nothing significant is really going to change for me.” The present ordering of your life—the way things are—claims to be the final ordering of your life. Drawing from the book of Jeremiah, today’s episode explores the question, “What if God is free to create a new beginning in your life that is underived from your present circumstances?”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I am Adam Young and today I want to talk about hope, |
| 0:08.3 | hopelessness and newness. The person to blame for today's episode is Old Testament scholar Walter |
| 0:17.6 | Brugamon. Walter Brugamon, I have spent the past year studying his commentary on the book of Jeremiah |
| 0:25.2 | as well as his brilliant little book titled The prophetic Imagination and these two books have |
| 0:33.8 | provoked me in the best sense of the word, provoked me to think differently about hope, hopelessness, |
| 0:41.6 | and whether or not we can expect God to do anything genuinely new in our lives. |
| 0:48.4 | Let me begin by talking about the place where some of you may find yourselves right now. Many people |
| 0:57.1 | with a history of trauma find themselves sooner or later stuck in a place of near despair with regard |
| 1:08.1 | to a particular area of your life or perhaps more than one area. It's as if your trauma inflicted a |
| 1:17.3 | wound on your brain that feels incurable. Do you sometimes feel like you have a wound that cannot |
| 1:29.1 | be cured? As unbelievable as this may be, this is precisely the place where God's people find |
| 1:39.9 | themselves in Jeremiah chapter 30. And here's what Jeremiah 30 verse 12 says, let it astonish you, |
| 1:48.8 | God is speaking to his people and this is what God says, your wound is incurable, your injury |
| 1:59.5 | beyond healing. This is not Jeremiah speaking, this is God. Verse 12, let me say it again, reads, |
| 2:08.5 | here's what the verse says, this is what the Lord says, your wound is incurable, your injury |
| 2:19.3 | beyond healing. There it is. Now in a minute, I will explain the context of this verse, but for now, |
| 2:29.0 | just ask yourself, have you ever felt this way? Do you feel this way now about some aspect of your |
| 2:38.9 | life? Do you sometimes feel like your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing? As you have |
| 2:50.1 | engaged your story in more depth and as you have come to see how your present day brokenness is |
| 2:56.4 | linked to your past experiences in life, sometimes this can make you feel like you are so deeply |
| 3:03.8 | wounded that there is nothing that can be done. Perhaps you have become aware that you are, for |
| 3:11.2 | example, insecurely attached, whether it's avoidant and bivalent, and you are seeing how your |
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