UNGODLY GRIEF - Having a sense of grieving over a long period of time (years and years) will block your peace and rob you of the present. Self-pity glues us to the past. Regret glues us to the past. Guilt because of someones death, glues us to the past and opens the door for the enemy to keep you down. If you are suffering long-term due to a loss of a loved one, or even loss of a job or relationship, etc., and its keeping you from moving forward with your life - this is ungodly grief. Jesus is the only one who carries our pain and grief, but when we keep it, we are trying to take His place. Its time to take off your grave clothes and come out from among the dead and into the living. Grief can even cause your eyes to have problems. Psalm 6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Grief can cause other health issues - Psalm 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed Greif can cause us to have anxiety - Jeremiah 45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. And one of my favorite verses is found in 2 Corinthians 2:5-11. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. There may be someone in your life, a neighbor, friend, or relative that causes you so much grief! According to this verse, that person who causes grief are they themselves full of pain. They are filled with sorrow, and arent being comforted. To forgive the person of causing you uncessary grief and discomfort because as Christ forgives, so we must also, so that Satan wont get an advantage over us! So we not only help that person who is perpetrating our problems, but if we dont forgive them, it opens the door for the enemy to come and make things worse! So if you have been grieving over a loss, or if someone is causing you grief, in both cases forgiveness has to be administered. Confess where your grief is because when we keep on grieving about it, we are trying to get back something that was lost, and only God can replace it or heal your broken heart. But He cant unless you go to Him with it. And for those causing you grief, forgive them and go the extra mile to comfort them.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:37:06 +0000
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