What Does The Bible Say About Losing A Loved One? Tonight I want to talk about what the Bible says about losing a loved one. The scriptures we are going to look at tonight are 2 Timothy 4 verse 7, John 14 verse 27-29, Psalm 147 verse 3, John 16 verse 22, Psalm 34 verse 18, Matthew 5 verse 4, Isaiah 41 verse 10, John 3 verse 16-17, Ecclesiastes 3 verse 1-22, Psalm 23 verse 1-6, Romans 8 verse 18, Colossians 2 verse 5, and John 11 verse 25-27. When we look at the verses we see how God helps us through the trials, and we see how He comforts us and helps us through the process of mourning a loved one. God helps us through the process in order to know that when we lose a loved one, we will have times where we grieve but we can smile back at the memories too. God helps us through our suffering, and that makes me think of a song called Through Suffering by Glendil Griffin where the song says: It is through suffering I find the strength I need, it is through suffering I know that you are faithful, so even when I can't see the change around me, God I know you're changing me, your changing my heart, cause your the only way. God gives us the strength to know that when we trust in Him even through the hard times I know that we have God to help us remember that as we trust in Him, things will be okay because it will work together for His Good and Glory. We know that things are in God's control and we know He is helping us see with an open mind and an open heart that we don't have to be afraid because we also know that we will see our loved ones again someday. I want to share a quote with all of you. When we lose someone we love We must not learn to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind. I think of this quote as one when we think of what the scriptures we read tonight talk about losing a loved one and how nothing is impossible for Him because all things are possible with Him. I want a share a quote from God's Armour that says: Never lose hope. Just when you think it is over, God sends you a miracle. Now I wanted to share this quote tonight in what we are talking about because I want us to know that no matter what we are never alone. Now losing a loved one is hard, it is scary but One Thing always Remains and that is God's infinite and unfailing love. God is love and because God is love, His love for us never fails. We are talking about grief and loss, what it truly means to lose a loved one, and when we look back at the scriptures we read tonight, we see that God will give us comfort, He will hold us close to Him, and He will help us because He is a Just God. He never leaves us, and He helps us through the most difficult times like this, but the outcome of losing a loved one is never easy, we still have that hurt in our heart, we still have that time where we miss them, but God says in scripture: Come To Me All Who Are Weary and I will give you Rest. God never leaves because He gets us through these storms of dealing with the loss of a loved one. Does the pain go away? Does the pain ever stop? Do we ever stop missing them? No, we never stop missing the ones we love, because it's normal to miss them. It's normal to deal with pain of missing them, but in time God shows us that it will get better as we go day by day. As we remember little by little that He holds our future in His Hands, and that He is the reason in any circumstance that we can do all things through Him that gives us strength. I want to share two different things and the first thing I would like to share says this:
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