It's my version of Language of Lament! (Think Lots of Lament)
My thrust of trust! Too often, it's difficult to live without complaint.
I beat myself up when I fail. If this idiom were true physically, I'd be black and blue daily. No one can criticize me or punish me more excessively than my own "self-critical" intense feeling of guilt.
But God reminded me, through a Mark Vroegop article that part of the book of Psalms deals with the Language Of Lament. That's my LOL!
Vroegop states, A Psalm of lament "is pain that leads to trust."
Self-criticism is never mentioned.
(No Bibliography info available on my torn out sheets)
Today for me, prayers prompted from Psalm 71
also focused on Vroegop's four elements of lament from Psalm 77, Psalm 22, and Psalm 13.
- Turn:---Talk to God while in Pain (Psalm 77:1-2) (I Think filled with fatigue as Psalm 71 subtitle, ESV p. 586) states, "Forsake me not when my strength is spent.")
- Complain:--Something I try not to do but Vroegop recommends as a part of Biblical lament---as one lays out the nature and depth of his.her sorrows.(Psalm 22:9-11)
- Embrace: biblical promises. (Psalm 22:9-11)
- Trust: Believe in God's trust worthiness (Psalm 13:5-6)
Mark Vroegop sees these elements as a legitimate framework for lament, a track of grief which allows a believer's prayers to move his/her journey from heartbreak to hope.
