Coming to Grips with Grief
Rex Yancey
John 1:32-35
We spoke about guilt a few weeks back. Today, I want to speak about another reality that affects our minds. The subject today is grief. There are two wounds that can come to the psychic; one is guilt and the other is grief. Guilt is a dirty wound and will fester and get worse unless it is dealt with properly. Grief is a clean wound if it is dealt with correctly. Grief is a subject we cannot afford to ignore. We must learn to deal with it.
Grief is a universal experience. No one will get through life without grieving. We grieve over many things. We grieve over the loss of someone we love. Delayed grief according to D.P. Brooks remains until one has worked through it. Pushed out of the troubled mind, grief makes trouble for the body and the mind.
I remember as a teenager when a relative took his own life. It rattled my cage. It was one of those growing up experiences when I realized I could not take life for granted.
How do we come to grips with grief?
1.THE REALITY OF GRIEF
The Bible is filled with obituaries. Sin entered the world and death followed. People have been dying ever since. The Patriarch Jacob called his loved ones to him and gave them words of blessing before he died.
Job grieved the losss of his children. He tore his robe, shaved his head, fell on the ground and worshipped.
In our text today, ''Jesus wept.'' Grief did not escape the Son of God. ''He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.''
As a preacher, I have stood beside scores and scores of caskets and watched wives, husbands, parents, children, brothers and sisters, and friends' parade by the remains of a loved one. They have come from all walks of life. Some were rich, some were poor. A few held positions of power and influence in the world. They were young and old, black and white, but they all knew grief.
I have known grief personally as I have lost my parents and my siblings. I know by experience that ...
Rex Yancey
John 1:32-35
We spoke about guilt a few weeks back. Today, I want to speak about another reality that affects our minds. The subject today is grief. There are two wounds that can come to the psychic; one is guilt and the other is grief. Guilt is a dirty wound and will fester and get worse unless it is dealt with properly. Grief is a clean wound if it is dealt with correctly. Grief is a subject we cannot afford to ignore. We must learn to deal with it.
Grief is a universal experience. No one will get through life without grieving. We grieve over many things. We grieve over the loss of someone we love. Delayed grief according to D.P. Brooks remains until one has worked through it. Pushed out of the troubled mind, grief makes trouble for the body and the mind.
I remember as a teenager when a relative took his own life. It rattled my cage. It was one of those growing up experiences when I realized I could not take life for granted.
How do we come to grips with grief?
1.THE REALITY OF GRIEF
The Bible is filled with obituaries. Sin entered the world and death followed. People have been dying ever since. The Patriarch Jacob called his loved ones to him and gave them words of blessing before he died.
Job grieved the losss of his children. He tore his robe, shaved his head, fell on the ground and worshipped.
In our text today, ''Jesus wept.'' Grief did not escape the Son of God. ''He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.''
As a preacher, I have stood beside scores and scores of caskets and watched wives, husbands, parents, children, brothers and sisters, and friends' parade by the remains of a loved one. They have come from all walks of life. Some were rich, some were poor. A few held positions of power and influence in the world. They were young and old, black and white, but they all knew grief.
I have known grief personally as I have lost my parents and my siblings. I know by experience that ...
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