Death is hard. For years you enjoy the relationship with someone you love with every fiber of your being. It could be a parent, spouse, child, or someone else close to you. One day they are with you. You can talk to them, touch them, and hold them. Suddenly they have stepped out of the realm of the physical and entered the realm of the eternal. The believer in Jesus experiences everlasting life.
Death is hard on those left behind. There are tears, heartaches, indescribable sorrow, and oppressive grief that seems will never end. God is near and a very present help in times of such grief. [Ps 46:1]
I love what Paul said in [Phil 1:21]. "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." The word gain means "profitable and advantageous." For the child of God death is a good thing. That is the perspective I tried to keep when my mother passed away. I thought of all her suffering, heart attacks and brain damage and I thought about her resurrected body. Hallelujah. She suffers no more. My last conversation with her was about death and the fact that she had trusted Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and the salvation. She had the biggest smile on her face when we discussed this. Death for my mother is gain.
[Ps 116:15] "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his godly ones. This means from God's perspective the death of one of his own is highly prized, valued splendid, and glorious. What a reunion.
What about those left behind. We grieve but Christians grieve differently. We grieve with the hope that we will shall be reunited with our loved ones again through Jesus Christ. This is not a vain hope. This is reality. This is how we should comfort the grieving during times of grieving.
Death is hard on those left behind. There are tears, heartaches, indescribable sorrow, and oppressive grief that seems will never end. God is near and a very present help in times of such grief. [Ps 46:1]
I love what Paul said in [Phil 1:21]. "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." The word gain means "profitable and advantageous." For the child of God death is a good thing. That is the perspective I tried to keep when my mother passed away. I thought of all her suffering, heart attacks and brain damage and I thought about her resurrected body. Hallelujah. She suffers no more. My last conversation with her was about death and the fact that she had trusted Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and the salvation. She had the biggest smile on her face when we discussed this. Death for my mother is gain.
[Ps 116:15] "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his godly ones. This means from God's perspective the death of one of his own is highly prized, valued splendid, and glorious. What a reunion.
What about those left behind. We grieve but Christians grieve differently. We grieve with the hope that we will shall be reunited with our loved ones again through Jesus Christ. This is not a vain hope. This is reality. This is how we should comfort the grieving during times of grieving.
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