if grief can hurt my relationships and I need to get rid of it then how do i let get rid of it?
there's a story in 2 samuel 12 about david. it's a story that tells us how to let go of grief. david had a illegitimate child by bathsheba. he took another man's wife and had her husband killed. it was a sin. she became pregnant and bore a son and the son became very, very sick. david, it says, laid himself out on the ground and prayed for days, "GOD, save this child! spare the child!" he fasted and prayed and wept. and the child died. we don't always get everything we pray for.
2 samuel 12.16 & 18 (ms), david prayed desperately to GOD for the little boy. he fasted, wouldn't go out, and slept on the floor...on the seventh day the child died.
the first thing david did was he accepted what could not be changed.
2 samuel 12.20 & 22 (ms), david got up from the floor..." while the child was alive," he said, "i fasted and wept, thinking GOD might have mercy on me and the child would live. but now that he's dead, why fast? can i bring him back now?
the answer is no. david said, while there was a chance i prayed and wept but now he's dead. and i've got to get on with life. he accepted what could not be changed.
many of you are in pain now from events that happened years and years ago. the key to your piece of mind is in one word – acceptance. acceptance of GOD's will in your life. GOD does not have a plan b for your life! there is only plan a. GOD is still on his throne and GOD is still in control and you need to accept what cannot be changed. let it go! let go of your grief. it relieves so much pain.
just a thought from the front porch...
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