How Can I Grieve to God's Glory?

Some believers feel guilty when they grieve because they know that they should rejoice in the Lord always (Phil. 4:4). Others use grief as an occasion to say, like Job, “God hath overthrown me” (Job 19:6). Yet there is a better and more biblical path to follow. Using Lamentations 3:1–39 as a guide, Ryan M. McGraw furnishes readers with the necessary tools to grieve in a sanctified way and exercise faith under hardship. Come and learn to express rather than repress your grief as you walk through sorrows with Christ by faith.

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781601787330

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Ryan M. McGraw is pastor of First Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Sunnyvale, California; research associate, University of the Free State; and adjunct professor of systematic theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

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“One of the great challenges of our Christian generation is knowing how to lament and grieve in a godly manner. Contemporary Christianity seems to have imbibed much of the atmosphere of this age in which lament and grief are shunned like the plague. This new booklet by Ryan McGraw is thus a Godsend, for he paints for us from God's holy words the color and shape of holy lament and godly sorrow and why they are such a vital part of Christian discipleship in what our Puritan forbears termed this ‘vale of tears.’” Michael A. G. Haykin, chair and professor of church history, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky