Grains of Sand

wisegeek.org (Google Images) When was the last time you heard a sermon from the book of Lamentations? Frankly, I don’t ever remember hearing one! I guess we don't care to dwell too long on the negative, but our approach to Easter sparks some interesting negatively positive online conversations. I’ve been reading a series of posts built on the observance of Lent. It’s not something we Baptists celebrate unfortunately. In any case, this morning’s reading was from the book of Lamentations and appropriately had to do with godly grief ( http://shereadstruth.com/2015/03/02/godly-grief-2/ ). What I read hooked nicely into the Bible passage I read this morning in which Jesus tells His disciples that He is going to die and rise again. Matthew 17:23 tells us: “‘ They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.’ And the disciples were filled with grief. ” In the post, the grief described from Lamentations was grief over sin, the kind of grief that leads to repentance an...