Jun 22 2006
A House of Mourning
Death is our enemy.
Death is the enemy of our savior.
Death brings pain and sorrow and tears into our lives.
Today two dear friends found out that their baby had died. The doctor calls it a blighted ovum, but there, in her womb, is a dead child. No heartbeat.
Children are full of life. They shine and glow and laugh and play.
There is nothing so dead as a dead child.
Today I weep with them. I shed tears right now because I love them and I love this child. And it will be a long time before we meet him in glory.
But this dead child isn’t dead. Death, here, has such a painful sting. He is where death has no sting. He plays and runs where sin cannot hurt himâ€â€where he is in the presence of Jesus.
Jesus will come one day to set all things right. When He comes there will be no more sorrow. No more pain. No more tears. No more death.
Bon voyage, baby. You have traveled home without us. We will meet you there soon.
A house of mourning is better than a house of feasting because our days are short. One day soon I will join this child and the seven that we have lost in the same way. I will join them when I die. And death will bring me into true life.
May our hearts be glad in Jesus as we mourn the loss of this precious child.
Mourning the loss of this families baby too… many many tears are beeing shed while I writ this! Their baby was to be born only weeks before mine… this is soooooo hard!
May God specially comfort them during this time!
I don’t even know this family, but I still mourn with them. I so long for the day when we will no longer feel death’s sting.