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Religous: Grief can be healed by word of God
Minister Pastor Pat O'Rourke
for South Peace News
In Mark Chapter 10, verse 29-40, Jesus said these amazing words. “No man has left house, or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel, but he shall receive on hundred fold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, persecutions: and in the world to come eternal life.”
These words cover a lot of areas. But one area is especially needful for folks to consider today, the leaving behind of very painful situations.
Pain and sorrow of the heart are present realities these days. You just never know what the person sitting next to you or shopping next to you is going through. I personally live in a rural community and in the last three weeks death has touched at least two of the homes within a two mile radius of my home.
Then there is the pain of rejection by family and friends. The pain of divorce, the pain of financial loss, the pain of misunderstanding, all of these can be devastating to our lives.
Fortunately, God has made a provision by which we can leave those things and go on.
I remember very clearly in my own life an accident which happened over 20 years ago. Three weeks after the death of my ten-year-old daughter, the Lord communicated so clearly to me. “Pat, you have to leave her with me.” In those hours I understood there were only two choices.
Leave her with God, or face a bankrupt life, perhaps even insanity; the grief was so great. Both my wife and I faced these issues and because of God’s grace were able to deal with them.
But when we look closer at Jesus’ words, we find, He spoke of reward. A one hundred fold return on whatever you lost and left with Him. At the time of loss, it is virtually impossible to see how good could ever come out of our losses. But life goes on and when things are properly given over to god the rewards do come in time.
A few years ago, I was the speaker at a grief seminar in another town. I talked about some of these very sensitive areas. When I was leaving the building, a woman walked up to me and spoke these words. “About 28 years ago I lost my son. I have never been able to deal with the grief. It is an ever present, everyday reality in my life. Can you help me?”
All I could do is what I am doing today. I pointed her to the words of Jesus. The words are true and they do work but you have to put them into practice in your life.
So in closing can I ask you, is there an issue of pain in your life? Something that just hurts so bad you block it from your memory.
But it is there and it festers, perhaps even poisoning you spiritually. Why not put Jesus’ words into practice? Give it to God. He will take it and you can be free. It works, try it today.
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