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Introduction
Play Song Great Is Thy Faithfulness/My Redeemer is Faithful and True By Keith and Kristen Getty
Psalm 13.
Worship flows from suffering.
Or at least it can.
But the truest, deepest, and most passionate worship most often flows from suffering.
“All true songs of worship are born in the wilderness of suffering,” says musician and author Michael Card.
In reflecting on the laments of David, Card suggests that without the “rocky terrain of his lonely life,” we would not have many of the psalms of David that we cherish.
In other words, David’s pain created his worshipful laments.
I think Card is right.
Suffering refines what we trust in and how we talk about it.
Mark Vroegop
In our suffering, in our lament…do not forget this truth.
Let it lead you to trust.
Pain can bring clarity.
Loss affirms trust.
Pain can become a platform for worship.
Suffering can lead to trust.
Lament is the language for this transition.
Songs of sorrow are meant to move us from complaint to confidence in God.
Mark Vroegop
Trust is what we turn to now.
Outline
Review:
Lament Element One - Turn Your Heart to God
Lament Element Two - Bring your Complaint
Lament Element Three - Ask Boldly
Big Idea: Lament leads us to active patience as we choose to trust in God.
It’s Time to Choose
Trust = Active Patience
Psalm 13 - Choosing to Trust
But God...
Three Affirmations of Trust
Affirmation of God’s trustworthiness
Affirmation of Salvation’s Certainty
Affirmation of God’s Worthiness
Varied Expressions of Trust
Sermon Body
It’s Time to Choose
All of the other three elements point here.
This is the final destination of lament.
Lament will always bring us to a point of decision.
From the beginning of our journey, my goal has been to help you envision where lament leads.
We’ve reached our destination.
I hope you sense the opportunity that’s before you.
But you’re going to have make the choice to take this final step.
Unfortunately, I know far too many people who are stuck in their complaints.
Others never move beyond their requests and what they want God to do for them.
I hope you’ll be different.
While I’ve tried to encourage you to talk to God about your struggles and to ask boldly for what you need, now you will need to bring lament to its appropriate conclusion.
You will need to choose to trust.
Mark Vroegop
Trust.
Trust is the destination that true biblical lament leads us too.
I love the way that Pastor Mark defines trust...
Trust = Active Patience
Now don’t make the mistake of thinking that trust is something you decide once and for all as you are walking through pain.
It’s not as if you pray one lament prayer, and you never need to lament again.
Life isn’t that simple.
Grief is not that tame.
Instead, we must enter into lament over and over so that it can keep leading us to trust.
In this respect, lament allows us to embrace an endurance that is not passive.
Lament helps us to practice active patience.
Mark Vroegop
One of the ways that trust is defined is --- dependence on something future or contingent.
Through this very definition, we see that it is not something, by this nature, can be permenant, or once and done.
The fact is, trust puts our confidence, hope, and reliance on something or someone outside of ourselves.
This means that we may well have to (no, we WILL HAVE TO) keep coming back to a reaffirmation of our trust time and time again.
Patience is defined as
1pa•tient \ˈpā-shənt\ adjective
[Middle English pacient, from Middle French, from Latin patient-, patiens, from present participle of pati to suffer; perhaps akin to Greek pēma suffering]
(14th century)
1 : bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
2 : manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain
3 : not hasty or impetuous
4 : steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity
5 a : able or willing to bear — used with of
b : SUSCEPTIBLE, ADMITTING 〈patient of one interpretation〉
When we place our confidence in someone outside of ourselves, when we come back to it time and time, trust means we are ACTIVELY engaging in renewing and keeping our confidence where it belongs…WITH PATIENCE.
Patience is bearing the trial, waiting in trust, WITHOUT complaint.
It is not patience if all the while we are waiting we are complaining.
It is not patience if we are consumed with anxiety and tension while we wait.
(This is not to say that we never have negative emotions while we wait, but simply that they do not consume or control us).
Trust = ACTIVE PATIENCE.
When we trust....
We are not complaining because we have confidence in the one whom we trust in
We are not anxious, because we have confidence in the one whom we trust
We are not passive...
We are obedient and actively pursuing the work and will of God even while we wait.
We are ACTIVE in renewing our trust and confidence and strengthening our faith
We are renewing our mind (Work) to dwell upon truth when our flesh and emotions would drag us away.
Trust looks like talking to God, sharing our complaints, seeking God’s help, and then recommitting ourselves to believe in who God is and what he has done—even as the trial continues.
Mark Vroegop
Trust is ACTIVE in that it is constant work to keep trusting
Trust is ACTIVE in that it is working to obey and walk worthy even while we wait
Trust is PATIENT precisely because are placing our confidence in one who will never disappoint or fail.
So TRUST is ACTIVE PATIENCE.
Lament leads us here.
Lament rests here.
Lament, Pastor Mark says...
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