5.21-What to do when in grief?
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The effect of receiving God's comfort.
I feel so sorry for my friends who have lost a spouse after many years of a great marriage. I have been told by those who know that If you have deep grief and pain from a loss, spouse or child you have more than one option.
You can do nothing and help no one and get worse
or
The effect of receiving God's comfort.
I feel so sorry for my friends who have lost a spouse after many years of a great marriage. I have been told by those who know that If you have deep grief and pain from a loss, spouse or child you have more than one option.
You can do nothing and help no one and get worse
or
You can get up and use your remaining life on earth to get to know God and help comfort and encourage others.
3000 years ago a wise man said after losing a beloved son
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
2 Corinthians 1.
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,[a] about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
3000 years ago a wise man said after losing a beloved son
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
2 Corinthians 1.
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,[a] about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
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