Bible Verse of The Day – 7-30-24

Matthew 19:6 (NKJV) 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

What God has joined, let no one divide.

Several years ago, I had the privilege of walking a good friend through the loss of his longtime wife.

I consider it a privilege because it allowed me to walk through some of his grief with him, feeling some of what he was feeling as it unfolded. And it taught me a lot as it played out.

I was obviously not feeling everything he felt. That would be impossible.

But I got to see and hear firsthand what he was experiencing after losing the one he had spent so many of his years with and loved so very deeply.

To be honest, some of it was gut-wrenching. The anguish he felt was immense.

And this incredible pain caused him to feel things and say things that were quite raw, and even brutal, in the sense that he questioned whether he was partially to blame for her dying, even though she had died from multiple medical conditions that were completely out of his control.

Grief can do that to a person. It can cause them to question so many things that we would never think of in ordinary situations.

Why does this happen? Why is the pain so intense when a spouse leaves their lifelong partner behind?

It is the “becoming one” principal.

As individuals, we are just that; one person. We have no other parts or counterparts. It is us, alone.

But as we grow to become on with another human being, as God intended it to be, we are now no longer just a single individual. We are two people acting in unison, living as one in marriage.

And this does something to us emotionally.

It is this that causes such deep anguish when one departs.

Two becoming one is something that is beautiful and frightening at the same time.

Beautiful in the sense that it gives us the opportunity to share our lives, and its most intimate moments, with someone we love deeply.

Frightening in the sense that one of those two people will leave this earth before the other, leaving the remaining person behind and alone, having to start over again without them.

Let us finish this up tomorrow.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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