While you enjoy the gifts of friendships, family, finances or any type of provision, there eventually comes a parting of ways. Whether relocation, job loss, injury, divorce, death or some other reason, you lose connection. Loss may wear different hats, but eventually reveals its baldness. What will you do with this grief?
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Psalm 6:7
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher of girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. Isaiah 3:24
INSECURITY SCREAMS!
Separation from anything familiar, whether good or bad, can breed insecurity. Your hollow heart echoes as insecurity screams! How will you fill these new spaces?
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earth wages earth wages to put into a bag with holes. Haggai 1:6
Fears slips in to sew threads of failure, fabricating a depressing future. Will you be able to handle such unrest alone?
THY KING COMES IN …WITH HIS KINGDOM
When such emptiness arrives, be not shocked with surprise. On this side of the world loss will slide into home base. Rather than taking the bat of anger or running with sorrow’s insecurities, seek thy King. He has brought you the gift of His Father’s kingdom. Sit with your Savior; for He has something significant to say to your joyless situation.
Fear not, daughter of Sion, behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt. John 12:15
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:32
His Word stops the flood of your sorrow. There is balm in God’s palm. Handing out truth, the physician specializes in human suffering. Your gaping wound is not hopeless but has made room for your healer. Why not let Him in?
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which his right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that health thee. Exodus 15:26
LONELINESS DISSOLVES
Finally, negate those foolish lies which hover over your head. You are never alone. You are not friendless, a widow, an orphan or an outsider. Loneliness dissolves into the waters of communion when you are with the Lord.
Receive the mystery of exchange. Christ already cut the cords of loss and fear to load you with peace and joy. Everlasting security is in saving grace, not God-given gifts which you once enjoyed.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Psalm 68:19
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. Isaiah 61:3