You Will Sing Again

SCRIPTURE

 

13        But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

14        For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep 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 not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16        For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17        Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

18         Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NASB)

 

 

PRAYER

 

Oh Lord, grief and loss are an ever-present reality of this life. Those we love go away, never to be seen in this life again, and the pain of loss seems unbearable. There is no shame in the grief we feel, nor in the reality that this grief never seems to completely go away, no matter how long it's been. That the sense of loss lingers for years is simply a testimony to the beauty and power of the life that was lived. Lord, come to (__________) on this day, and mingle with his grief a powerful sense of hope. May he have the hope of a joyous reunion. May he have the hope of eternal fellowship with them and you. And between now and then, may you give him a new song of love and life. And may his heart hear it's growing melody even today. But most of all, Lord, most of all, may he have a deep and full sense of your comfort today. Please Lord. Overwhelm him with the full sweep of your comfort. Amen.

 

 

ENCOURAGEMENT

 

One day you will sing with them again friend. And even before that day, God will bless you with a new song. Listen for its distant melody.