How I Do Grieve.

How I Do Grieve.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

God has no pleasure in the death of any man. For we are all made in His likeness and in His image. We morn, and grieve, over the death of a loved one, I myself have grieved many times. It is a hard thing to lose someone that you halved loved all your life.

We are heartbroken by a loss, but some take it harder than others. We must grieve in our own way, and accept the will of God for our loved ones, and most importantly for ourselves. Death will come suddenly to many, others will suffer in the body before passing on. There are many reasons that the Lord takes a life, for we are all born in this life already dieing.

We are once born, once to die, and then we are judged on our works, weather they be good or bad. We, as Christians, have hope for a man that has died believing in Jesus Christ, for that is what we have assurance by.

"Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
Weather wicked or righteous, the Lord has no pleasure, nor does He take any pleasure, from the death of a man.

God is righteous, and merciful. But we must all remember that the word or spirit of the Lord shall not always strive with any man. Remember that the Lord doesn't kill a man, but rather transforms him into the state that man has chosen in this life.

"For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
When my dad died, the first thing that came upon my heart was to praise God for His excellent greatness and mercy. The Lord inhabits the praise of His people, and there-by, He is always there to comfort with His Holy Spirit.

God does not willing cause grief among man, but His will, according to His word, is for man to turn to Him and believe, not only in Him, but also His Son. A loved one is special, and our hearts will miss them, but we must, according to scripture, rejoice at the death of a believer, and cry at the birth of a child.

"Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive."
Those that remain, are in peril each and every day. We are left here to face the evil of today.

We pray that the Lord finds us worthy to escape the evil that will come upon this earth. Famines, floods, earthquakes, fire and especially, we pray that the Lord takes us home before the appearance of the anti-Christ, who will bring such suffering upon this earth, that was never seen before.
"Watch ye therefore, and pray, that ye be found worthy, to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."

We must all have time to grieve, a time to morn, and a time to cry, as Christ did cry, for Lazarus.
Our tears for the fallen, should be tears of joy, and hope in the promises of God. For how can a man being dead, rise again in the glory of God.
For only threw faith, and hope, in Jesus Christ, can a man be raised incorruptible, and acceptable with God.

When we know the truth of the Bible, we can see many things that are better.
"Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?"
We are all in the flesh that is corrupted

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens."

Ref; (Lam 3:31-41) (Jer 20:17-18) (Ecc 4:2) (Jer 22:10) (Ecc 3:4) (Eze 18:23)(Eze 18:32) (Luke 21;36)

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