God’s Word For Handling Loss

The Holy Spirit brings me into oneness with God entirely – when once I am willing to waive my right to myself and let Him have His way.  No man gets there without a crisis, a crisis of a terrific nature in which he goes to the death of something.  God is never far away from His saints to think ‘about’ them; He ‘thinks’ them.  We are taken up into His consciousness…  How we get there we cannot say, but it is by the process of God’s training of us.  God won’t leave us alone…    (Oswald Chambers)

“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in your weakness”…  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities … pains … distresses; for Christ’s sake.  For when I am weak, then [we are] strong (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).

Wealth, health, and happiness are gifts from God but they are not the only way He demonstrates His love.  Sometimes He allows these things to be taken away and allows us to undergo suffering so He can help us grow in wisdom.  If you have been going through sorrow and trials, ask the Lord to show His mercy and compassion toward you, and bring a result of wisdom and righteousness in your life.

I will not die but live!  And I will proclaim what the Lord has done (Psalm 118:13).

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised  (James 1:12).

Whether the illness is physical, emotional or spiritual, a person should first seek healing from Jehovah-Rapha…  Second, explore whether sin is the cause of the problem.  Sin effects our spirit, and the spirit can cause sickness of our emotions and our bodies.  Yet sin may not always be the cause of the problem.  In fact, personal sin may not even be a contributing factor.  However, we should still pray: “Search me, O God…”  It is wise to have God search our hearts. (Kay Author)

When times are good, be happy.  But when times are bad consider: God has made the one as well as the other (Ecclesiastes 7:14).

We should love, but we should love with the love that expects death and that reckons upon separation.  Our dear relations are but loaned to us, and the hour when we must return them to the Lender’s hand may be even at the door.  The like is certainly true of our worldly goods.  That thought may stay us from taking too deep a root in the thin soil from which we are so soon to be transplanted into the heavenly garden.  Let us recollect the frail tenure upon which we hold our temporal mercies.  If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodsman’s axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.  Frail flowers of the field, we must not reckon upon blooming forever.  There is a time for every purpose, including weakness and sickness.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8).

You may have lost a loved one.  God will make it up to you – if you place your trust in Him and refuse to try and collect what you feel is owed to you by yourself.  [Look at Joseph and Job.]    (Joyce Meyers)

We often gain by our losses.  The one who has suffered no loss is still a shallow person.

God is not concerned about our plans.  He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss?”  He allows these things for His own purposes.  The things we go through are either making us sweeter, better, nobler people, or they are making us more critical and fault finding.  (Oswald Chambers)

The sick person who cannot sleep thinks the night is endless, yet it is no longer than any other night.  In our cowardice we exaggerate all we suffer.  Our pain may be severe but we make it worse by shrinking under it.  The real way to get relief is to accept suffering because God sends it [or at the least uses it] to purify us.   (Fenelon)