Catching our balance – always important. When I was a young boy – eating watermelon sitting on the end of a picnic table – I fell backward off the table onto my head – I ran screaming around the yard holding my head – I had only a bad headache, I was OK.
There are some things we need to know about our grief and God in order to catch our balance. Some things God wants to give us:
1) That there is a reason for our suffering. A revelation from God. Our past needs revealing and reconciling. This is where faith is important. In His time He does all things beautiful. I need to know there is a reason for my suffering.
2) That I will survive in the meantime. I need inspiration for the future. I must believe and have a hope that God will do good things. That we are going somewhere in all this. If I have a why , I can create a how. There will be an end to suffering.
3) That it will happen now. I need miracle, love to change the now. The present. I need a friend in my suffering.
I Peter 1: 3-8 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5who are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to be distressed by various trials 7so that the genuineness of your faith – more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire – may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8You love Him, though your have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy.
Chaplain Jimmy Braswell
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