Based on Lamentations 3:19-33 Do you ever feel like the difficult times that you have in your life are because of you? Maybe because of a poor choice that you made, or a string of poor choices? Or maybe it’s apathy or laziness—doing just enough to get by in all of your vocations, whether that’s at work or at home or at your church or in your relationships. And because of the things that you’ve left undone, some or many of the people in your life suffer because of you. I know that some of you feel that way because we’ve had that discussion. We’ve talked about it. You know that you’re not alone, because I sometimes feel that way too—that the sufferings and the hardships that I’m going through are because of things I’ve done or things I’ve left undone. And then I come across a Scripture passage like the one we are looking at today. It is from the book of Lamentations, which was written by the prophet Jeremiah. In chapter 3, verses 32 and 33, he writes this: “Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.” The phrase that Jeremiah writes—that God does no