| If your
law had not been my delight, I would have
perished in my affliction.
Psalm 119:92
Then
Job replied: "If only my anguish could be
weighed and all my misery be placed on the
scales! It would surely outweigh the sands of the
seas -- no wonder my words have been
impetuous."
Job 6:1-2
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your
promise preserves my life.
Psalm 119:50 |
Does
the Bible deal with grief?
 The Bible is filled with
people who have suffered grief. People like you
and me. People touched by tragedy. And how they
responded to grief is instructive for us, because
God wants you to know that it’s all right to
grieve.
It’s also
important to note that loss doesn’t always
mean the loss of a person. It could be the loss
of a job. The loss of health. The loss of
reputation. But King David was losing a child.
And he grieved. He wept. He poured his heart out
before God on the sacred soil of sorrow. Yes, the
Bible affirms the need to grieve and express
sorrow. |
| David pleaded with God for the
child. He fasted and went into his house and
spent the nights lying on the ground. The elders
of his household stood beside him to get him up
from the ground, but he refused and he would not
eat any food with them.
2 Samuel 12:16–17 |
 The
God of the Bible is the God of the brokenhearted.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted.
Isaiah 61:1
One of the
meanings for the Hebrew word for bind in this
passage is "to wrap around." Perhaps
the only way to get through this grief is to let
Christ wrap his pierced hands around your broken
heart and allow him to share in your sufferings.
David
grieved deeply. And turned to God’s Word for
his source of comfort. |
