TO KNOW GOD IS TO KNOW COMFORT

WORD OF WISDOM
MOURN ~ (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Genesis 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Numbers 20:29), for Moses (Deuteronomy 34:8), and for Samuel (1 Samuel 25:1); David for Abner (2 Samuel 3:31, 35); Mary and Martha for Lazarus (John 11); devout men for Stephen (Acts 8:2), etc.
(2.) For calamities, Job (1:20, 21; 2:8); Israel (Exodus 33:4); the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin (Judges 20:26), etc.

(3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of atonement (Leviticus 23:27; Acts 27:9); under Samuel's ministry (1 Samuel 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zechariah 12:10, 11); in many of the psalms (51, etc.).

Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Genesis 35:8, marg.; Luke 7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Samuel 6:19; 2 Samuel 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending the clothes (Genesis 37:29, 34; Matthew 26:65), wearing sackcloth (Genesis 37:34; Psalm 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person (2 Samuel 13:19; Jeremiah 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Leviticus 10:6; Job 1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Exodus 33:4; Deuteronomy 21:12, 13; 2 Samuel 14:2; 19:24; Matthew 6:16, 17), fasting (2 Samuel 1:12), covering the upper lip (Leviticus 13:45; Micah 3:7), cutting the flesh (Jeremiah 16:6, 7), and sitting in silence (Judges 20:26; 2 Samuel 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20).

In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of sorrow (2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17; Matthew 9:23).

The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Genesis 50:3); for Aaron (Numbers 20:29) and Moses (Deuteronomy 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1 Samuel 31:13). In 2 Samuel 3:31-35, we have a description of the great mourning for the death of Abner.

Source: Eason's Bible Dictionary





Source: ChristArt.com


I came across this and decided to post it. All of us I am sure know someone like this.

The passing of loved ones is a time to mourn. All kinds of feelings and emotions try to take over and control your body and mind. We do and say things that under normal situations we would not do. People also say the dumbest things to you when someone passes away.

Being a Christian we can look to the Lord for peace and comfort. While we might not have answers, God will comfort us. I am blessed in that as a Christian I can have that.

A dear friend just lost her young son. That in it self is sad but in the last six months she lost that son, a month later that son’s daughter only 18 and now another child. Her one son left is on drugs. She is one of those people who is happy with her relationship with God. It amounts to there is a God and He is awesome but my life is my own, if God was here it would be better.

What is really sad is what she says is so true. I saw her recently and she was in terrible shape, I suggested things for us to do to get her out of this, to encourage her. She wanted no part of it.

What is even sadder is she does not want to know my God. To her if He was so loving why did He do this to her. The fact is, if God were in her life, if she had a relationship with Him things would have been much different for her.

To begin with she would know how to protect her children, and she would know the promises that belong not only to her but her children and her grandchildren. Even then if this would have happened she would have mourned, but God would have comforted her.

The things we choose to go through without Him. I am so blessed to know my Lord and have that relationship with Him. I mourn when there is a passing, I cry and long for that last goodbye. But even in the mist of the tears, and pain I know that my family is going home, we will met again and it will be joyful. To know that is enough. The wait might be long for us, but for them it is a blinking of the eyes.

Thank You Lord for letting us know we are going home.

God Bless,
rECj/LJG