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funeral, especially one for a friend or a loved one, listen to God speaking to you, telling you that everything in life is temporary except for His love. This is reality. Everything in this life is going to be taken away from us, except one thing: God’s love, which can go into death with us and take us through it and into His arms. It’s
But Christians have a hope that can be “rubbed into” our sorrow and anger the way salt is rubbed into meat. Neither stifling grief nor giving way to despair is right.
All that delights you in earthly things can never satisfy you—for all your desires are eminently for God himself.
The comforts you had here are but only drops inflaming, not satisfying, the appetites of your soul: but the Lamb . . . shall lead them to fountains of living waters. (Revelation 7:17)7
If we actually could physically see our loved ones now, they would be so radiant and beautiful beyond bearing that we would be tempted to fall down and worship them. Not that they would let us.
