I Am With You
“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” - Isaiah 41:10
Upon Sarah’s death, Abraham immediately left wherever he was, went where she had passed, and according to the text, mourned the fact that his bride was no longer with him. It is a graphic picture of a man, a husband, a spouse who is in pain.
He grieved because he loved her after 62 years of marriage. He grieved because he lived with her through the ups and the downs, in the good times and the bad times they endured. And he grieved because now he has lost her.
Grief is probably the most difficult path one has to walk. We grieve when we lose someone we love, but we can also grieve over a variety of other circumstances in life. When a relationship we thought would never end, ends; when we lose a child to prison or drugs; when life delivers to our doorstep problems we had not anticipated; when a pet dies, a house is foreclosed upon, or a job lets us go, we grieve because things have changed.
Loss is inevitable. None of us is here to stay, and every circumstance does not come to last forever. In fact, the vows read and recited at marriage even condition the end of the covenant around the finality of life, “till death do us part.”
Loss is inevitable and grief is the result. Grief is the child who struggles with the transition of a parent. It is the parent who struggles with the departure of a child. Grief is the combination of complex feelings and emotions that consume one’s heart when tragedy strikes — from shock to denial to anger to guilt to mourning.
Even as believers, we are not secluded from the pain, heartbreak, and grief all humans will experience at some point or another. God does not promise us a life without pain. He only promises that He will be with us every step of the way. Isaiah 41 tells us, “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”
In this life, you will experience grief. But He is with you. He will strengthen you. And He will hold you up with His victorious right hand!
Upon Sarah’s death, Abraham immediately left wherever he was, went where she had passed, and according to the text, mourned the fact that his bride was no longer with him. It is a graphic picture of a man, a husband, a spouse who is in pain.
He grieved because he loved her after 62 years of marriage. He grieved because he lived with her through the ups and the downs, in the good times and the bad times they endured. And he grieved because now he has lost her.
Grief is probably the most difficult path one has to walk. We grieve when we lose someone we love, but we can also grieve over a variety of other circumstances in life. When a relationship we thought would never end, ends; when we lose a child to prison or drugs; when life delivers to our doorstep problems we had not anticipated; when a pet dies, a house is foreclosed upon, or a job lets us go, we grieve because things have changed.
Loss is inevitable. None of us is here to stay, and every circumstance does not come to last forever. In fact, the vows read and recited at marriage even condition the end of the covenant around the finality of life, “till death do us part.”
Loss is inevitable and grief is the result. Grief is the child who struggles with the transition of a parent. It is the parent who struggles with the departure of a child. Grief is the combination of complex feelings and emotions that consume one’s heart when tragedy strikes — from shock to denial to anger to guilt to mourning.
Even as believers, we are not secluded from the pain, heartbreak, and grief all humans will experience at some point or another. God does not promise us a life without pain. He only promises that He will be with us every step of the way. Isaiah 41 tells us, “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”
In this life, you will experience grief. But He is with you. He will strengthen you. And He will hold you up with His victorious right hand!
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