It’s Okay to Lament | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | June 3, 2021
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our Daily Bread. |
| 0:08.7 | Our reading titled It's Okay to Lament was written by Julie Schwab. |
| 0:15.4 | I dropped to my knees and let my tears fall to the floor. |
| 0:19.4 | God, why aren't you taking care of me? I cried. |
| 0:23.5 | It was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I'd been laid off for almost a month, and something |
| 0:30.1 | had gone wrong with my unemployment application. I hadn't received any money yet, and the |
| 0:35.1 | stimulus check the U.S. government had promised hadn't |
| 0:37.6 | arrived. Deep down, I trusted that God would work out ever. Gifted us. I believed he truly loved |
| 0:44.0 | me and would take care of me, but in that moment, I felt abandoned. The book of lamentations |
| 0:50.6 | reminds us it's okay to lament. The book was likely written during or soon after |
| 0:56.3 | the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 587 BC. It describes the affliction, oppression, and |
| 1:03.4 | starvation the people faced. Yet, in the middle of the book, the author remembers why he could |
| 1:10.8 | hope. |
| 1:11.9 | Chapter 3, verses 22 and 23 read, |
| 1:15.8 | Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassion's never fail. |
| 1:22.9 | They are new every morning. |
| 1:25.2 | Great is your faithfulness. |
| 1:30.8 | Despite the devastation, the author remembered that God remains faithful. Sometimes it feels impossible to believe that the Lord is good to those |
| 1:38.8 | whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him, especially when we don't see an end to our suffering, but we can |
| 1:47.0 | cry out to him, trust that he hears us, and that he'll be faithful to see us through. |
| 1:58.9 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Lamentations chapter 3. |
| 2:03.6 | In verses 19 through 26. I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. |
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