Daily devotion – with Jesus!
Job 19: And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
27 Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
There is a massive difference between loosing something and leaving something. A little girl, whose baby brother had just died, asked her mother where her little brother had gone. Her mum, with tears in her eyes replied, “To be with Jesus.”
A few days later, the little girl’s mother was talking to a friend and the mum commented, “I am so struggling with grieving for my lost little boy.”
The little girl heard her say this and remembering what her mum had said just days ago, looked up to her mum and asked, “Mummy, is a something still lost when you know where it is?”
“No, of course not,” said her mother.
“Then, how can my little brother be lost when he is with Jesus?”
Our loved ones who have died in the Lord are not “lost”. They are “with the Lord”!
Rom 14:8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
2Co 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
And at the Resurrection we will see God and them – face to face. Job affirms: “I myself will see Him with my own eyes” Job 19:27
Until that blessed day, we are one with them in Christ.
What a comfort God’s Word gives us as a healing balm for the pain of grief over a loved one’s passing from our physical presence into glory.
This is the most wonderful hope and promise that Christ gave us as well as our salvation when He died on Calvary’s Cross. To those of you who know the pain of having a loved one die, be reassured that time will pass and soon a great meeting will occur, and our mourning will be turned into joy.
1 Thess 4: 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.