we are dealing with things from your past that will hurt your present. grief is one of them and in order to get rid of your grief, you play it down and pray it up. you don't exaggerate it – "the world has ended!" the world has not ended. you're heartbroken but the world has not ended. you don't exaggerate it, you dedicate it. you play it down and you pray it up.
notice here in 2 samuel 12 what david did. one of his children had died and it says in verse 20 (ms), david got up from the floor, washed his face and combed his hair, put on a fresh change of clothes, then went into the sanctuary and worshiped.
what did david do with his grief? he went to church. and he worshipped. those of you whose hearts are breaking right now, focus on GOD.
isaiah 6.1 (ms) says, in the year that king uzziah died, i saw the MASTER. he got his eyes off the circumstance and on the ONE who was greater than the circumstance.
i'm not lessening the significance of your loss but i am saying, for your own sake, you must play it down and pray it up. that person in your life is not coming back.
just a thought from the front porch...
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