Although Suffering…
author: Hope Breedlove at Joy In The Mourning Ministries
I feel like I have been surrounded by death recently. What I mean be that is over the course of 2 months time, I have known of 5 people that left this Earth and gone to their Heavenly home. Some of them I did not know; they were my parent’s friends. Some of them I did know.
It is a lot for the human brain to process death (because we were not created to). There is comfort knowing we will see them again when we know Who they put their trust into. That is one piece of comfort it is hard to imagine those that do not believe having to face the grips of death without.
I was reading through a Biblical fiction book based on Job and it was really interesting. Job went through so many trials and so much of his life was ruined, but he recognized God was still on the throne. That is really hard to do in times of sorrow and hurt. One of the characters that was fictional in the story said a really interesting and thought provoking line. She said something along the lines of, “Sometimes our tears are enough for our sorrows and repentance for the Lord.” I thought that was beautifully put. Sometimes all we can do is cry out to the Lord and weep before Him and He welcomes us with open arms.
Psalm 56:8 it says, "You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?"
This is so evidence of God's compassion and overwhelming love for us. He cares and knows our pain when grief hits. He has been through the ultimate pain and suffering and took that, our sin, upon Himself so that we would not have to pay a price. There is joy in that freedom alone. It is so hard sometimes to remember that joy, especially when life just keeps spiraling out of control, but we serve a God who knows everything and is still on the throne. Let us find the joy in that this week when all we can seem to do is weep - that we, although suffering here in our pain of loss, can look forward to a day when we will not be suffering any more because of the gift of eternity we have already been given.
