Grief: Help Me In My Sorrows!

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Check out these four articles on the topic of grief. You will find an analysis of the topic. You will find gospel help and hope. You will find scripture and life interwoven as God designed it to be.

Part 1 explores grief as a concept and as a reality. This article also explores the secular concept of “stages” or arenas of grief and what they look like. Link to part 1 here.

Part 2 unpacks the gospel hope and help that God offers us in our grief. Eight gospel “anchor points” are provided as help in avoiding the tendency of drifting away from God and from His promises. Link to part 2 here.

Part 3 places the hope of the Word of God alongside secular or human responses in our grief to see how these responses stack up. Link to part 3 here.

Part 4 takes a look at the awesome goodness of God as it is explained in Romans 8:18-39. This journey in our grief needs to be placed within the purposes and the plans of our loving, all-knowing God. Link to part 4 here.

 

 

Counsel Comments

From our post: “Be the Church or Go to Church

“Discipleship is a lifestyle of building relationships, connecting with people, and speaking truth. We grow these relationships towards Christ. As people begin to see we care about them and they begin to desire truth, they press in towards hearing more about God and seeing how we live.”

From our post: “Job’s Depression and My Story”

“In God’s sovereignty and at God’s appointment, God chose a man who ‘feared God and stayed away from evil’ to walk through a deep, dark, horrific depression. I believe that the book of Job reveals through Job’s thoughts, beliefs, and actions at the time, that he was facing depression…God used this trying time in Job’s life to draw Job into a closer walk with Himself. Our God is not a punisher. We must see God as one who has open arms and is always drawing us to Himself, deeper and richer…God is asking you and me [through Job] ‘Am I enough?'”

From our post: “Jonah’s Counsel from God.”

“God is in the process of counseling the prophet Jonah. Yes, in a certain way, we get to sit in on a counseling session between God and Jonah. Although the session or sessions come to an end quickly for us, we still get insight into God’s heart and Jonah’s heart. And that is the core of biblical counseling, bringing man and God together in such a way that man is faced with truth about God and truth about his own heart. The result depends on man’s response to what he sees and hears about God and what God wants of man.”