Peace in Death

[Gaelina]

Philippians 4:7

"And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

 

I was listenging to Greg Laurie on the way to work this morning and he was talking about prayer and about how he deals with his sons death, He said how at times the grief overwhelms him and how no one can do anything to fix the problem, to bring his son back. He said how when he gets to that point he prays and recalls certain scriptures that help him get his mind and heart back on track. One of those passages is Phililppians 4:7. I know this passage well but I don't think I ever really understood the depth of it until he spoke of it this morning.

I wept bitter tears of anguish when I found out that Steve Irwin and Heath Ledger had died. I cried more for them than I did for my own great grandmother whom I knew and loved. I cried more for them because I did not know where they had gone, unlike my grandmother whom I know I will embrace again when I go Home. I cried for Steve and Heath because I respected them, I'd followed their careers a bit and had laughed and cried over things they'd done. I know about their children and loved ones they had left behind. The thought of them not being in Heaven sent agony through my heart and lead me to weep tears of sorrow unlike anything I'd felt before.

Now I know that is nothing compared to the anguish of loosing a child and the thought of loosing my own fills me with fear I don't want to begin to contemplate and yet I know that if the Lord decided to take my son Home that as much as I would hurt and sorrow I have the knowledge that I he would be in Heaven and in the arms of Christ and I would see him again. I don't want that to happen and I don't know why God would take him but I have the peace now that God gives me. I do know that God knows best and will do best and I trust Him. I too, like Laurie, would have, at times, inconsolable grief but the peace would come regardless of my understanding of why.

The peace from God does not require understand. It doesnt need it. It's more powerful and its greater than any amount of peace that understaning could bring. It's trusting in God to know and as he knows everything we always have peace we just need to accept it. It's how the Apostle Paul had peace in all of his moments of imprisonment and beatings and times when anyone else would have given up could still go on and sing praise to God while shackled in a prison cell. It's how Christ could be nailed to a cross with the sins of all the world past, present, past, and future and endure it, willingly and then go to hell and crush Satan and rise again. It's how Greg Laurie can still be the amazing pastor he is after the death if his beloved son, how he can still praise God after so much of his heart his been torn asunder.

Peace is not contingent on our surrounding or the happenings in our lives or the feelings that fill us. It, like Love and Joy, are from God and are in a endless and abundant supply, always available for us. All we have to do is accept it. Like Truth. Like Salvation. It's free.

Accept it.

[wilswife]

Feb. 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM

that is beautifully put

[Gaelina]

Feb. 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM

Thank you! :: hug ::

(Original Poster)