{"id":2713,"date":"2012-07-21T01:14:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T01:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2012-07-20T21:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T21:18:47","slug":"habakkuk-lamented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/habakkuk-lamented\/","title":{"rendered":"Habakkuk Lamented"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One key to living by faith is to realize that faith laments.<\/p>\n<p>Lament is ultimately hopeful.\u00a0 Seems paradoxical, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 The person sitting before you is weeping and wailing about his pain, and it is supposed to produce hope?\u00a0 There, of course, is a fine line between complaining and lamenting, but too often we dismiss the baby with the bath water.\u00a0 Dan Allender says that one who laments often looks like a grumbler or complainer, but that biblical lament is nothing of the sort.\u00a0 Instead, lament contains in itself the possibility of extraordinary hope, restored desire, a changed heart.\u00a0 Lament is, at its core, a search for\u00a0 God.\u00a0 It is not a search for answers.\u00a0 It is not an invitation to fix an ailment.\u00a0 Rather, lament enters the agony with the recognition that it might not go away for days, months, even years.\u00a0 And yet, the lament carries with it the hope that God will eventually show.\u00a0 Dan Allender puts it this way:\u00a0 \u201cLament is a search \u2013 a declaration of\u00a0<em>desire<\/em>\u00a0that will neither rest with a pious refusal to ache, nor an arrogant self-reliance that is a hardened refusal to search.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/habakkuk-lamented\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One key to living by faith is to realize that faith laments.<\/p>\n<p>Lament is ultimately hopeful.\u00a0 Seems paradoxical, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 The person sitting before you is weeping and wailing about his pain, and it is supposed to produce hope?\u00a0 There, of course, is a fine line between complaining and lamenting, but too often we dismiss [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-HL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}