Its Sunday

Goodness, it has been a rough few weeks. When our loved ones pass on into eternity, it is never an easy thing. It doesn’t matter how much we can give ourselves pep talks and tell ourselves we are ready. We are prepared. In reality, no, we are not. There is that thing called grief. And grief sucks big time. It would seem as much grief that I have been through in my lifetime that I would be an expert on that subject. However, I am the least experienced. I just know what I know, and I know that grief sucks.

Whether the ones in our lives pass suddenly or their passing is long and drawn out, it still hurts. And no amount of preparation takes that sting away. Only God can take that sting away. However, we are told to not be like those who have no hope. When our loved ones pass over into eternity and they have Jesus as their Savior, we know that it is not the end, it is just the beginning.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (ESV)  “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.  (14)  For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.  (15)  For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.  (16)  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  (17)  Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.  (18)  Therefore encourage one another with these words.”