🥀 Grief & Loss
In seasons of loss, God draws near to the brokenhearted. These verses offer comfort and the assurance that our sorrow is not the end of the story.
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
God will wipe away every tear — no more death, mourning, crying, or pain.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Jesus wept.
The shortest verse reveals the deepest truth — Jesus wept with those who grieve.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Even walking through the valley of the shadow of death, we need not fear.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
God comforts us in all our troubles so we can comfort others in theirs.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Christ was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief — He carried our sorrows.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
Present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed.
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
We grieve, but not without hope — those who died in Christ will rise again.