Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Sean Daenzer, director of worship for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and chaplain for the International Center, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Lamentations 3:1-18. The third poem in Lamentations begins in a way that invites the question: “Who is the man?” Certainly Jeremiah and any individual resident of Jerusalem could lament in the way this poem begins. Each one recognized the calamity God had brought upon Judah for her idolatry and rebellion. The LORD had brought darkness upon His people and besieged them. The LORD had blocked out their prayers and acted as a wild animal in wait of His prey. The LORD had afflicted His people as a warrior against His enemies, such that the poem despairs of hope in its lowest moment. Yet that moment prepares for the turn back to the LORD because the lamentation remains a prayer. What else can Christians do when all is sorrow and trouble but cry out to the LORD in lamentation? He joins us in our sorrow by the incarnation of the Son of God. Jesus shows Himsel