Lessons from our grief, part 2 from Grief Share

Praise the Lord! He is good.God’s love never fails.2 Praise the God of all gods.God’s love never fails.3 Praise the Lord of lords.God’s love never fails. Psalm 136:1-3

I think one of the best takeaways from this week's Grief Share meeting was this notion that God loves us so much that he desires to be at the core of our suffering. 

When God sent his son, Jesus, to die the most excruciating death on the cross, it was to pay the penalty of all of our sin's. Think of that for a moment.  Before Christ was born, God expected all of us to be perfect because he detested sin.

 This was a burden that was impossible for most people to keep that He decided to become like us by being born to a virgin and living life as a common man to experience the things we experienced- except this time He would take the final sacrificial blows on the cross that would lead to the total forgiveness of all of our sin's, as long as we choose to receive this gift of eternal life from God.

Not only did Jesus become like us, but he walked among us teaching the things that truly mattered to his father in heaven. Jesus became our role model. Through his words of wisdom taught to him from the father above, we learned how to treat one another, how to encourage, and how to meet each other's needs, not from a worldly perspective, but God's perspective.

  In this day of age, the world is sorely lacking in moral absolutes. Through a relationship with Jesus, God gives us the boundaries that when followed will keep us on the straight and narrow, out of trouble and controversy, and away from the temptations of life that have caused so many in society to fall.

The lesson from grief share is to draw near to God's heart by reading the bible and by praying in conversation style the burdens you're facing today. God hears your anguish cries, your pleas for help, and your pain you feel.

In fact, the more you draw near to God through daily Bible reading, prayer and putting one foot in front of the other and attending Church much like you did before your loss,  your recovery from the loss will be easier to navigate with fewer complications.