I do not know loss like many who I walk through this life with…..nor do I claim to know how it feels…..

 

The Lord has convicted me to write about it anyway.

 

My hero died on February of 2010 in the house I grew up in.

As I read scripture over him, he opened his eyes and gazed into a place that I do not believe my brother, or my sister, or my mom, or me, could see…..and he looked at peace.

Seconds after that, he drew his last breath and launched me into a period of mourning that stung to the core of my heart.

 

I had been fighting with the Lord over having to speak at his funeral.

 

Our Lord works in mysterious ways.

 

In church one Sunday, about a month after his death, we were worshipping and I saw my father.  It is hard to describe “seeing” him but, it was a picture in my head…….

 

He was young.

He was healthy.

His mind was working.

He was happy.

 

After that moment, the sting was gone.

 

I don’t know why it was gone…….

 

But I think……more than anything else……it was the fact that he was good.  He was taken care of. He was in a far better place then we could give him here.

 

God has written us a love letter that assures us of just that:

1 Corinthians 2 9However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”

 

Romans 8 28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

 

John 14  2In my Father’s house are many rooms;

 

Father~  Do what you do.

Take the sting of loss, and the fear of death, and restore us to live for You….that we might Go And Make Disciples Of All Nations.

Rest Your Spirit on the pains of loss….

And Do A New Thing…..

That we might never be the same again

 

In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J