STEEMCHURCH: For just as in Adam all die, also in Christ all will live again.
When a loved one dies, all our forces seem to fail, we feel that a part of us is dying with that loved one. It is difficult for us to accept that they will no longer be with us physically and many times we feel that we will not be able to continue with the pain that invades our soul.
"Sometimes we do not understand God's decisions, but we must accept them," because in that will are the great wonders and mysteries of our Heavenly Father, which in the end always end up being what God considers to be good for us.
Remember when Jesus, the Son of God died. His sacrifice was for our salvation; to free us from our destruction. God sent his only son to save us, not to judge us. So that all who believe and live in it can be saved and have eternal life after death.
The Bible teaches us that our relationship with our deceased loved ones does not end. Although we can not see them physically, the letter to the Hebrews shows us a reality that escapes our view:
Heb 12, 22-24 "You, on the other hand, have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem with its innumerable angels, to the assembly as a feast of the first citizens of heaven; universal judge, surrounded by the spirits of the righteous who already reached their perfection, Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, who carries the blood that purifies and who cries out to God with more force than the blood of Abel ".
Then we could lose God that allows us to perceive our loved ones who have passed away, in order to feel that they have not abandoned us and that they envelop us like a cloud.
2 Kings 6: 15-17 And as soon as the morning came, the servant of the man of God went out, and, behold, the host of the besieged city, with horsemen and chariots. Then his servant said: Ah, my lord! What will we do? 16- He said: Do not fear, because there are more who are with us than those who are with them. 17- And Elisha prayed. and he said: And I pray you, O LORD, that you open your eyes so that you may see. Then Jehovah opened the eyes of the servant, and looked; and behold, the mountain was full of horsemen and chariots of fire round Elisha.
We could ask God to open our eyes and allow us to perceive that those who have died have not abandoned us completely.
We should console ourselves to know that those who left have returned to God and with him they will return.
To accept such a decision, let us remember the story of the seven brothers and their mother who were martyred during the Maccabean uprising.
2Mac 7, 26-29 The king insisted so much, that the mother agreed to convince her son. He leaned towards him and, mocking the cruel tyrant, said to the child in his native tongue: My son, have mercy on me, that I have carried you in my chest for nine months, I have looked after you for three years, I have fed and educated you. Now I ask you, my son, to look at heaven and earth and what is in it: to know that God made all this out of nothing and in the same way that human beings were created. Do not fear this executioner; show yourself worthy of your brothers and accept death, so that I can recover with you the day of mercy.
The mother took her faith and her strength in God and encouraged her son to accept death so as not to reject his beliefs in the heavenly father. And his consolation was that he would recover it on the day of mercy as promised to us if we live in God and according to his laws.
