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A prayer for an eternal perspective while you grieve by Emily Rose Massey, read by

Leah Martin, for to me to live as Christ and to die as gain, Philippians 121, what are

you grieving today? Christians were not ones who grieve without hope because our hope

is set in eternity. I can say that because I believe what the Bible says about this amazing

hope. I also believe it because of my own painful losses and tragedies that I've experienced

throughout my life. We can always believe for a miracle, yes, absolutely, but at what

point do we trust completely in God's sovereignty and the outcome? What happens to our faith

if we don't see the miracle in this life? Are our eyes fixated on what's temporary or

what's eternal? Because of the cross, we don't have to taste death. Our spirit lives

on and we live forever in eternity. It's the cross that accomplished the forgiveness

of sin and made a way for us to have peace with the Father, which is the core of the gospel

of Jesus Christ. Believing this gospel sets our hope toward the life that is to come.

Another honest question is, why so much focus on this life? Why is it better here on Earth,

a legacy to live? When we die in Christ, we live forever. Yes, there's pain. Yes, there's

great sorrow in many questions as to, why now, Lord? My husband and I have lost loved

ones when we felt that was way too soon. My father was brutally murdered when he was

barely 50 and my brother-in-law died in a tragic drowning accident at 25. We've also

experienced the pain of miscarriage early in our marriage. We had a lot of wise, just

because we're human and humans have a very difficult time processing death. But the Bible

is very clear about the glorious hope we have that awaits us as believers in Christ.

The truth of God's Word is what gives us great peace in the midst of our pain. Our faith

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