There are so many hurts in this world. Our body and soul
are wracked with every kind of atrocity in varying degree of horror. One of the
worse is that inflicted on us at the death of our child - from one in the womb
to one that is grown, but died too soon. I lost a baby in a miscarriage. At
first I did not want anyone to fuss over me, because it was just a fetus,
right? I tried not to grieve.
But God showed me that although my arms ached to hold
this precious fruit of my love with my husband, God was now holding my child in
HIS arms, and what better place for my child to be resting! I gave my baby a
name and celebrated his birthday in my heart every year. This gave me hope and
a blessing that lessened my grief (Jeremiah 29:11).
My beloved child may have left this mortal world, with
all of its suffering and trials, but he did not miss our immortal home in
heaven. Every single one of our days
are planned out by God and written down in His book before we are ever born (Psalm 139: 13-18; Ephesians 2:10). God makes all things beautiful in His time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Life starts at conception, and our precious child's soul
was alive in heaven with our Savior (Jeremiah 1:5). What a fact to celebrate, in spite
of our sadness of never having known our child in this earthly life. God actually creates our soul to include
our personality and knits our bones together in our mother’s womb. We are
amazingly made as spirit, body, soul – our thoughts, will and emotions.
No one
deserves to suffer the trials of life, but we all go through them. We are
united in our sufferings, but we are also united in our joys and pleasures. God
uses tribulation to strengthen our soul and to allow us to draw closer to Him
and to one another. We can comfort each other with the same encouragement He
uses to comfort us (2 Corinthians 1:4).
Prayer:
Father God,
life treated Jesus abominably. His life was cut off in His prime at 33 years of
life. His mother grieved at the cross and at His grave. She watched as He was scourged, nailed to a wooden cross and allowed to hang there until His
lungs collapsed. However, according to Your will, Jesus victoriously rose again
from the grave. He paved the way for everyone, who will walk away from sin and
embrace Your will for our life, to spend eternity with You.
Thought for the Day:
God always uses everything in our life, even the bad things, for our
ultimate good.
