Why the Book of Lamentations is so Good

So, recently I've been really trying to meditate on the word of God. I've been feeling so overwhelmed with school and other things that they've allowed them to become a thin barrier in my relationship with the LORD. This is why when I meditate and something speaks out to me I want to come and write about it. My hope is that by writing about it the word of God can work in me. Which brings me to the title of this entry, Why the Book of Lamentations is so Good. I know, its crazy. How can a book that speaks about the suffering of a fallen nation be good? Jeremiah (if he is the author of Lamentations...no one is sure about this, but we think it is because he was an eyewitness of Babylonians destroying Jerusalem) spoke about how all the people are suffering and how the nation is now a disgrace and how everyone around him is hungry. He even talks about his own sufferings in Lamentations 3:1-20, and how he will remember them. I think this is how it always works, we always remember our sufferings. They are much more memorable than our happy times because suffering brings pain, lots of questions of 'why,' and often times bring altering life changes. This is also when we either turn to God or turn away from Him. Yet, going back to Jeremiah, after he speaks of all the suffering he has gone through his tone changes in Lamentations 3:21 by saying, "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:" I like it because I think everyone when they are suffering should have a hope because even though we can't escape suffering we can hold on to the hope we have. And this is what Jeremiah's hope is: " Because of the LORD's love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."" And he goes on by talking about why it's good to hope in the Lord and says, "The LORD is good to those whose hope in in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man [or woman] to bear the yoke while he is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him. Let him bury his face in the dust- there may yet be hope. Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace. Foe men are not cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. Foe he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men. To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, to deny a man his rights before the Most High, to deprive a man of justice- would not the Lord see such things? Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD." THERE! It was long, but I think it's good. Sufferings come and we want to blame God by saying, "Why have you done this? What have I done to deserve this?" Yet we are all sinners, even Job was a sinner. But in a way that doesn't matter. What matters is that we return to the LORD. Yeah, we all suffer and it makes us question and grind our teeth...but at the end suffering does pass away because God doesn't forget us. There are so many things that bring suffering (like all the time), but there is only one God Almighty.