Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any
powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God that is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It seems that I’ve had a lot of devotions over
the past few months that deal with death and yet, here I am again this morning
dealing with it and therefore writing about it.
Later this morning I will be attending the funeral of a friend who died
way too soon. He had been suffering a
long and hard battle with cancer and during service Sunday morning, he returned
to our Lord.
Last night, my husband and I went to the
visitation. The part that got me the
most was watching his son, around 10 years old, stand at the casket and just
stare. You knew he was really struggling
to understand what was going on and the why.
While my heart just broke for him, his siblings
and their mom, I was encouraged by a comment his mom posted on Facebook earlier
in the day. You see, in their house,
they had a chalkboard wall and just a couple of weeks ago when the dad was
coming home from the hospital, they put a welcome home message on the
board.
Yesterday morning the mom saw it as she was
trying to figure out how to get through the next few days and she thought she
should probably erase it. Then it hit
her, Brian had his final welcome home party going on. Her young son kept saying that that they
would see him again when Jesus returns.
Brothers and sisters, when you have Christ in
your heart, nothing is going to separate you from his love. When faced with separation from a loved one
here on earth, remember that when you know the love of God, nothing will separate
you from their love either.
Please join me in praying for the Miles family
today as they say an earthly goodbye to their dad/husband.
I pray today that you will have a love for the
Lord that equates to nothing being able to separate you from our Lord and
Savior.
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