June 4 2025 … Grieving With Love …

June 4 2025 … Grieving With Love   …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with the group Casting Crowns  singing… Scars In Heaven,  showing that the only scars in heaven are the ones that hold all those who’ve surrendered to receive God’s saving grace.

The Only Scars in Heaven ... 

Highlight Passage: …Genesis 23:1-2  … [NLT] … 

1 When Sarah was 127 years old, 2 she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.            

…  Abraham grieves for His wife who died in a foreign land.       

           

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Genesis 23:1-4, 17-20  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… At Sarah’s death, Abraham’s love for his wife was honored by the purchase of a special burial place in Hebron, purchased from the Hittite elders.                                                                         

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 34:18 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

… David sings of His Lord being close to he brokenhearted, … rescuing their (our) spirits.

Reference Passage: … Psalm 147:3 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

… The Psalmist, likely David, declares that our God heals the hearts of the brokenhearted. 

Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount, declares that God gives blessing to those who mourn.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul encourages fellow Christians with the truth that we may suffer in the here-and-now but those who love and follow the Lord will one day experience His glory forever.

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 5:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter assures oppressed Christians that they (we) can give all our worries and suffering over to our God Who ALWAYS cares for His chosen

Reference Passage: …  Revelation 21:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… John shares what Jesus revealed to him about what believers will experience in heaven.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - John Blase … AT THIS LINK     … quoted from a poem, over a thousand years old, which wrote, ”Tis a fearful thing/ … to love what death can touch.”  And the poem conveys the reality that we quite often mourn what we love, but lose, to death; and that was conveyed by citing the time Abraham lost his one, true love, Sarah (cited in above in Genesis 23).  

But our mourning the loss of a loved one, as did Abraham in the Highlight passage, or any of us who mourn such a loss we feel now, … can be - and will be - healed by God’s truth in the linked song and God’s word, shared above. … Yes, we may mourn now but we look forward to sharing eternal glory with our Lord in heaven … FOREVER!!  Perhaps some reading here need that healing today.  if so, receive God’s love and grace, thru His truth shared above.  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for holding all of us who love You, with Your nail-scarred hands, … the only scars in heaven.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for being there in Heaven, Lord, to love and hold us with Your nail-scarred hands.      … Amen

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