Good Grief
How inappropriate can you be? How can grief be good? And after tragedy strikes, and the newspapers share all the shocking details, who would dare to say "Good Grief".
On the other hand, even as lights seem to be going out all over the world, we Christians have the audacity to say, "God is not dead, nor has He left us alone."
A president is assassinated, fire storms destroy hundreds of homes, a plane crash results in the loss of all lives, an earthquake kills hundreds of people, and destroys an entire city. More people die of AIDS this year, than ever before. On and on the tragedies continue.
Does grief bring us to our knees? Does the burning of churches in the south, unite people? Out of black Fridays, can there sometimes be glorious Sundays?
As a people, we are often in grief. But God has a way of turning it into "good grief"...of changing sorrow into greatness, of transforming sadness into gladness. The tears of a people are for the cleansing of their eyes.
Strange, isn't it, that the really great and significant things that take place in our world, cluster around tragedy and self sacrifice. What do we do with tragedy? We turn it into "good grief". That's what we must do! The apostle Paul said "We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us." (Ro. 5:3)
I'm not happy about "grief". But when I confront it through the Lord's eyes, I am able to find my way through.
On the other hand, even as lights seem to be going out all over the world, we Christians have the audacity to say, "God is not dead, nor has He left us alone."
A president is assassinated, fire storms destroy hundreds of homes, a plane crash results in the loss of all lives, an earthquake kills hundreds of people, and destroys an entire city. More people die of AIDS this year, than ever before. On and on the tragedies continue.
Does grief bring us to our knees? Does the burning of churches in the south, unite people? Out of black Fridays, can there sometimes be glorious Sundays?
As a people, we are often in grief. But God has a way of turning it into "good grief"...of changing sorrow into greatness, of transforming sadness into gladness. The tears of a people are for the cleansing of their eyes.
Strange, isn't it, that the really great and significant things that take place in our world, cluster around tragedy and self sacrifice. What do we do with tragedy? We turn it into "good grief". That's what we must do! The apostle Paul said "We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us." (Ro. 5:3)
I'm not happy about "grief". But when I confront it through the Lord's eyes, I am able to find my way through.
posted by Francis Geo. Guither at 6:45 AM
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