Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 11

Scripture

the age of sixty, when they were
just planning a great retirement.
He said ‘The Lord knows best’,
and was able to get on with his
life. He later lost a second wife,
A Christian friend lost her son and though facing terrible loneliture into my mind and it gave through a car accident. He was ness, he grieved by talking to the
me courage and strength for the in his twenties. She went straight Lord constantly about her. In a
next stages, and ever since. It to the Lord and found an amaz- month he woke, thinking he was
gave me hope that I could cope ing peace about the whole thing. holding her in his arms and the
and get through.
She was a able to release him to Lord said ‘She’s with me. Get on
the Father, and did not suffer the with your life,’ He was married
SCRIPTURE IS THE POWER usual grief process, even though a third time within four months
OF GOD.
she was very close to him.
because he had such complete
trust in the Lord. He saw that the
Psalm 119:8 says ‘I have hid- Horatio Spafford lost investments Lord permits a month of grieving
den your word in my heart that in a fire, and then his children at and then life resumes normalI might not sin against you’. sea. The horror of that loss pro- ity. (Deuteronomy 34:8). HowKnowing the scriptures very well duced the hymn ‘…When sorrow ever this grieving period means
pays great dividends in times of like sea billows roll, it is well, it is that everybody comes to visit
severe trouble as it shows us well with my soul.’
and the person who suffered
what attitudes to take, and if we
the loss has the opportunity to
take those attitudes immediately, A man lost his beloved wife at explain their feelings at length
without question, we will cope
and become victorious, wiser,
and know our Father more intimately than ever before.