Quotes of Note about God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, Part 4

Note: The following Quotes of Note are excerpted with permission from Chapter 3 of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses.

“Spiritual friendship with God results in 20/20 spiritual vision from God.”

“Numerically, there are more Psalms of complaint and lament than Psalms of praise and thanksgiving.”

 “In lament we hide nothing from God because we trust His good heart and because we know He knows our hearts.”

“Lament is our expression of our radical trust in God’s reliability in the midst of real life.”

“To deny or diminish suffering is to refuse arrogantly to be humbled. It is to reject dependence upon God.”

“The Scriptures are clear—God invites lament, complaint. The Bible repeatedly illustrates believers responding to God’s invitation with honest words that would make many a modern Christian shudder.”

“Lament is vulnerable frankness about life to God in which I express my pain and confusion over how a good God allows evil and suffering.”

“Lament is an act of truth-telling faith, not unfaith. Complaint is a rehearsal of the bad allowed by the Good.”

“When we lament, we live in the real world honestly, refusing to ignore what is occurring.”

“God wants us to make use of our suffering, to remember our suffering, to admit our need for Him in our suffering, and to rehearse our suffering before Him.”

“If facing suffering is wrestling face-to-face with God, then lament is our decision to grapple with God about life hand-to-hand, eye-to-eye.”

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