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Suffering Loss, Part 3 – YouTube

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Isaiah 40:1-8

Grief, whether it’s godly or worldly, has some uncontrollable moments because of a great loss.  The bottom line is that somewhere in there we can regain faculty. We can begin to turn this around, to change it, to repent, to change our thinking.  Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation.

There are many people who suffered loss and never found their way into a godly sorrow.   The worldly sorrow moves God out of your grief.  You stay sad, angry, depressed, hurt, and finally death has its way in you.

But when we are wild with sorrow and grief, in an uncontrollable, emotional state and spiritual condition, and say, “I have suffered loss, and I don’t know what to do with myself.  My soul was bound up in what was lost and now I’m lost.”  And we bring God into that.  “God, I need you more now than ever.  God, I need you right now.  I may want you all the time, but I have never needed you like this.  Come and heal my broken spirit.  Come and heal my fractured mind.  My emotions have been damaged.  I have been traumatized.” This is godly sorrow that bears fruit and will cause you to come back to life after major traumas.

Every valley shall be exalted, or filled – When I think of valleys, I think of depression.  We have been laid low.  So many are in depression.  The Bible says anxiety in the heart of man causes depression.  There is a cure.  There is healing in the name of Jesus for depression.  A good word will lift you out.  He sent His Word and healed them.

Every mountain and hill shall be made low.  Pride will be brought low.  Every proud, arrogant posture humbled.  Sometimes when you’ve been hit hard enough, you have to lay low, call on God, and be healed.

The crooked shall be made straight – There are many people who have twisted the path of God, and twisted their thinking in the middle of grief, rage, hurt, and pain.

The rough places shall be made smooth/plain – Sometimes we have so hardened our thinking, hearts, and emotions that it’s impassable.  Our thoughts can’t pass the same way they used to until they are rerouted by the mercies of God.

When we get in our grief and we allow God to begin to bring the depression up, the pride down, the crooked straight and the rough smooth, then the glory to the Lord can be revealed in us.

Everything you have access to on this planet is temporary except for the Word of God, the blood of Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.  Those are the three accesses we have into eternity.  When we consider that access to eternity, these endure forever.

So many today are so wrapped up in the relationships in the temporal that we cannot rejoice in the hope of the eternal.  We have wrapped our lives, bound our lives together with such temporal things, that when we lose the temporal thing, we can’t recover because it took some of our soul.  We have a soul tie to it.  Now we are bound to death.

Bring God into your grief.  Let the glory of the Lord be revealed and watch the hope come back alive that’s in Christ Jesus. The Sprit of God will literally fill the void that’s left in your heart.

When we strengthen ourselves in the covenant with God, we can be healed, and move on, and live, and love.

If you are in a place that needs healing, you need the godly sorrow to bring repentance unto salvation.  Let is work a healing in you.  He still heals the brokenhearted.