HOW CAN THERE BE ANY GOOD IN GRIEF?

Main Scriptures: 2 Samuel 4:4, 2 Samuel 9

Additional Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 4:17, Psalm 42, Proverbs 13:12, Isaiah 57:15, Hebrews 4:16, Philippians 3:10-11, John 14:2-3, 1 John 3:1, Psalm 126:5-6

POINTS:

• There are things we think we know about God in grief that we find out we really didn’t know.

• Grief can often feel like we’ve gotten stuck in the parenthesis of life.

• Grief can cause us damage, even unintentional damage.

• Grief means deep sorrow.

• Grief can show us our misaligned hope. We want to return to the way it once was.

• Jesus is “my Savior” in “my grief”

• There is no time limit on grief.

• Grief can show us our need for the mercy and grace of God.

• We cannot come to Christ without getting low (Lo-Debar).

• Mephibosheth came before the King and stooped as a servant. The King came before Mephibosheth and made him a son.

• When we place our hope in Christ in our grief, our tears become seed that achieve for us an eternal glory that far outweighs the grief we experience now.

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. Psalm 126:5-6