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Praying - Thinking - Processing in time of Mourning

Dear Friends,

It has been a while since I posted. I was looking through my posts and the last one was in November. Remember when I posted about being religious even in my blogging? Well this ladies and gentle men is the extreme opposite, also very unhealthy. I have called it #GraceAbused ...I will probably have a separate post on that...not probably, I will post about that!

This past week death came to our family and took my young cousin who had much life left for her to live. She left us and her husband and her beautiful daughter behind. This was such a wake up call to me, that we indeed live in tents ...earth is meant to be a tent never a home.

The shock, pain and hurt remains...but also He remains faithful. I saw the importance in setting our eyes and hearts on Him in this time of grief. As I was/am praying  - thinking - processing through what happened couple of things came to mind. I wanted to share this just in case you are reading this and you lost a loved one and you are wondering where God was/is in that..

Don't cry too much you will make God sad/angry -  I don't know how your culture deals with death but being Ethiopian I have been told this so many times. Until now I have taken this advice...but now I am asking, really?

You see that statement makes God seem like a vengeful, angry, detached, and unloving father. Is He? No He isn't. He is a father who understands our pain. Jesus came and dwelt among us for 33 years, He was fully human when He was on earth. How can we think He doesn't understand??

"32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”" John 11:32 - 36
It was God's will -  I don't know about you but I have heard this way too many times! In the past and even now people tell me it was God's will that my 26 year old cousin left her not even two year old daughter behind. I don't know about you but that is not the God I know and I serve! 
I guess a good question to ask is - if death was God's will why did Jesus pray to raise Lazarus from the dead? Does that mean Jesus - the Son - one of the members of the Trinity and God - the Father -one of the members of the Trinity have opposing views on life and death?
Or when Christ Himself was raised from the dead by the Holy Spirit - Does that mean the Holy Spirit and the Son are ganging up against the Father?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
You see even God - the Father only wanted life - eternal life for us. In His original design He created us to live forever - death was not part of plan. 
I guess what I am saying is claiming that every death and every sickness is God's will is painting a picture of a God who is an author of Evil. He is a good good father. 
"Why would God raise something up to be His will that He empowers you to pray against?" Bill Johnson  - Watch this short sermon  
I pray that you have been able to hear my heart in this. If you are out there and you lost a loved one I am right there with you. I want you to know that feeling pain is human, crying is human , but please allow Him to heal you, allow Him to show you what His original plan was/is. 
As hard and as painful as this time is I do not want you to be misinformed. I also want for you, for my family and I to grieve properly. 
After all we are clay before Him, He is the potter and only He can fix what is broken. 
May God be your strength. May you experience the power of the Holy Spirit and His ability to comfort in a way you have never before. 
Love you,
God Loves you.

Stay Blessed<3

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