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Embracing Grief and God’s Presence
Many, including Christians, often struggle to find the right words or actions for th… (visit YouTube for more)
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My wife and I lost one of our boys last year, and people, Christians often don’t know what to say or how to be with those who are experiencing grief or suffering. The Bible has a great recommendation for us for those times of joy and sorrow, in Romans 12 verse 15: Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
In the 23rd Psalm, it says that even if we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we know that God is with us, alongside us. And this is our experience in life so often, isn’t it that God doesn’t airlift us outta those difficult situations? He doesn’t make the suffering and pain just go away. No, in fact, the gospel is a gospel that includes suffering because as a result of our fallen nature in this fallen world, there is sin in this world, and there is suffering and death and decay.
So what do we do about them? Do we ignore them? Do we just pray harder? Do we expect that our faith will make everything go away?
No. Jesus was the Suffering Servant. He went to the cross. He experienced great agony on our behalf. He knows what it is to suffer. And when we suffer, he is right there alongside us.
