Our Daily Bread Devotional 6 November 2021 – A Glossary for Grief
Saturday 6 November 2021, read today devotional Our Daily Bread titled A Glossary for Grief written by Elisa Morgan. This message shall be a blessing to your life.
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Our Daily Bread Devotional 6 November 2021
Topic: A Glossary for Grief
KEY VERSE:
Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Luke 23:46
Today’s Scripture: Luke 23:44–46
INSIGHT
When Hugh and DeeDee released their only child to heaven, they struggled with what to call themselves in the aftermath. There’s no specific word in the English language to describe a parent who has lost a child. A wife without her husband is a widow. A husband without his wife is a widower. A child bereft of parents is an orphan. A parent whose child has died is an undefined hollow of hurt.
Miscarriage. Sudden infant death. Suicide. Illness. Accident. Death steals a child from this world and then robs the surviving parents of an expressed identity.
Yet God Himself understands such devastating grief as His only Son, Jesus, called to Him while dying on the cross, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46). God was Father before Jesus’ earthly birth and remained Father when Jesus released His final breath. God continued as Father when the still body of His Son was laid in a tomb. God lives on today as Father of a risen Son who brings every parent the hope that a child can live again.
What do you call a heavenly Father who sacrifices His Son for the universe? For you and for me? Father. Still, Father. When there are no words in the glossary of grief to describe the pain of loss, God is our Father and calls us His children (1 John 3:1). By: Elisa Morgan
REFLECT: How does it shape your heart to realize that God remains your Father and calls you His child—always? How might this thought comfort you?
PRAYER:
Dear heavenly Father, thank You for being my Father and claiming me as Your child.
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