"The Lost Language of Lament" of Weeping Prophets

Came across the quoted topic, to be covered in an upcoming conference in February next year.
 
 
Poignantly brings to mind the prevailing pattern of much of our ways of worship nowadays -
the sadness within our inner persons, and then repressing them whenever we gather in the throngs of our corporate worship, for the apparent sake of abiding in an attitude of lifting one another's burdens by the mere token of words and speech.  Perhaps we may all too easily provide for the excuse of priviledge of privacy in excluding such pertinent influences of our faith, especially in times of trouble, from our corporate worship. 
 
But doing so is implicitly tantamount to relegating our faith to a rewards-based value system (meritocracy) revolved around imagined blessings and curses in the light of circumstances, that have in themselves certainties as well as doubts as to their spiritual origins.  In effect, such behaviour at the corporate level is akin to paganistic superstition.
 
Sincerely, we are lacking much, indeed, in the inclinations of Spirit that inspired the thoughts of the weeping prophets in Scripture, from Job, to David, to Jeremiah, and even to our Lord Yeshua during His ministry on earth.  We certainly have no reason to fear or disdain the expression of our downcast souls even at the corporate level, for the sake of humbling ourselves before our common Lord and Creator, with regard to the underlying theme expressed in this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Iv-61e05w .

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