Grief is suffering a loss or experiencing an unfortunate outcome. What we do next has everything to do with our ability to process the sadness we feel. Our choice of what we dwell on will be of huge significance in overcoming grief.
Grief by definition is not disabling, although it is distressing, disabling would make us inoperative where distressing would cause high anxiety and even sorrow.
What we choose to dwell on in our grieving situation has to be changed into a magnification. What we magnify must be God, by magnifying God we make Him bigger than our anxiety and bigger than our pain. Amen!
Come magnify the Lord with me, exalt and extol Him; before and after my Mother’s funeral, God led me to have the song, “I exalt Thee” sang at my mom’s funeral, it was a favorite of hers but was also strong in my heart. It was a yearning in me to make God bigger than the situation! Amen!
By exalting the Lord it changed the entire atmosphere for me and led me on a path of grateful recovery. God started showing me that He was with me throughout the suffering that my Mother and I were experiencing, (her leading up to her death) and (me now).
God removed the barrier of sorrow and fear and replaced it with restoration and hope. Faith must be involved to totally abandon fear; you see faith replaces the fear. Amen!
As I put the magnifying glass on His Word and on His character, He became the biggest part of my healing process. When God’s grace appeared then Jesus was present to guide me into hope and into His living presence that heals and restores, everybody, every time.
People taken from us suddenly or by a process of time, always leave an open wound and our job is to salve the wound not magnify the wound. By exalting God to His place of honor which is above every other place and situation, we magnify the solution and get our minds off of the situation. We allow God engagement into our deep-seated emotions and by His guidance, our instability becomes changed into control.
We gain control of our mind and by this control we allow God to reel us into His love and care. His Word is all the time fishing for people, people that will speak magnifying words of faith right in the middle of all the adversity our distress is causing.
Billy Graham once said, “The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity”. Amen! This spiritual maturity comes on us when we magnify God over our fear and anxiety. Before we know it God is using people to comfort us, allowing our healing process to begin. We go from faith to faith; we meditate on all the good things and quit magnifying our feeling of loss and distress. Loss is an emptiness felt as well as a physical missing of a cherished loved one.
We can then start magnifying the place in our hearts that this person captured, we can start exalting God for the blessing they were to us, we can truly process our love, and that love does not dwell on the magnification of the loss.
With God, we are always gaining on the victory set out before us! Amen! He has set us on a path of freedom from bondage again to fear, you see fear always causes torment, but by the grace of God we press on towards the triumph we have in Christ and the manifestation of the sweet aroma that knowing Him brings.
God is our very present help in time of need, every time I look to God, I see Him helping me! Amen!
I asked God to give me another blog on Grief Support to help you and me, and He gave me this one. So come magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt His name together!
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Scriptures of encouragement and content; Psalm 34:1-3, Colossians 1:27, Acts 27:25, Romans 1:16-17, 1 Corinthians 15:57, 2 Corinthians 2:14, and Psalm 46:1, DBT: “God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found”. Amen!