Pottstown Bible Church
Speaker: Andy Pierson
Speaker: Andy Pierson
Lamentations 3:1-25, 31-40, 57-58
Video Here: Hope In the Deepest Dark
I have to admit, watching myself preach the Gospel for the first time is really awkward. Really awkward. First, because it is me. Second, because it is the Gospel. If someone told me ten years ago that I'd be doing this in center-city Pottstown I would have never believed it and chalked it up to insanity.
I've learned never to say never.
Lamentations 3:1-25 ~ I am the man who has seen affliction because
of the rod of His wrath. He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not
in light. Surely against me He has turned His hand repeatedly all the day. He
has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, he has broken my bones. He has
besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. In dark places He has
made me dwell, like those who have long been dead. He has walled me in so that
I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy. Even when I cry out and call for
help, He shuts out my prayer. He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He
has made my paths crooked. He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion
in secret places. He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has
made me desolate. He bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow. He made
the arrows of His quiver to enter into my inward parts. I have become a
laughingstock to all my people, their mocking song all the day. He has filled
me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. He has broken my teeth
with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. My soul has been rejected from
peace; I have forgotten happiness. So I say, “My strength has perished, and so
has my hope from the Lord. Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood
and bitterness. Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down
within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord’s loving
kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are
new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is
my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.” The Lord is
good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him.”
I have to admit, watching myself preach the Gospel for the first time is really awkward. Really awkward. First, because it is me. Second, because it is the Gospel. If someone told me ten years ago that I'd be doing this in center-city Pottstown I would have never believed it and chalked it up to insanity.
I've learned never to say never.
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