Many Psalms of Lament conclude with confidence in God despite suffering.  However, Psalm 44 begins with confidence, followed by a complaint, concluding with a call for God to act.

Lamentations articulates some of the worst human suffering. In response, a prayer for the Lord’s restoration is made.

When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.

We will see how wisdom holds the secret to being truly alive in every generation.

Why do we conceal our sins rather than confess them, especially when they imprison and distance us from God’s presence and his people? We’ll consider the folly of this approach to the Christian life and the liberating joys of confession flowing from our faith in the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.

God, according to His sovereign will, works all things together for the good of the believer. Not some things or most things, but ALL things … even our thorny trials and hardships.

From deep waters we cry to an attentive Lord for deliverance and forgiveness. Our watchful hope looks to his word of promise and plentiful redemption.

When you are going through suffering, what is your relationship with God like? When your friends or family are suffering, how do you comfort them? Job tells us that God has the answer to our suffering, and how we are to look to Him during those times.

In this wilderness journal King David records his experience of the steadfast love of the Lord in the face of deep suffering. His poetic witness points us to the love of Christ and the promised joy of abiding in the greater son of the great King David.