Bible Verse of The Day – 7-31-24

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (NKJV) 1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;

Greetings!

Thank you for joining us as we complete our study on the beautiful, Biblical institution of marriage; one man and one woman becoming one flesh.

After spending many years together, often decades, the sudden separation of two people leaves a gaping hole that takes much time to heal.

There will always be a place in our heart that holds onto that person, even if it does fade with time.

The surviving person must now learn to live without their spouse.

They must learn to live with a massive void in their life that they have no idea how to fill.

As I walked my friend through his loss and his grief several years ago, he expressed anger with his situation.

He wrestled with the fact that God created man and woman to become one, only to be inevitably torn apart at some point.

He struggled with feelings of betrayal, not by his wife, but by God Himself who created this holy union between a man and a woman.

I realize now, years later, that his anger was not so much genuine anger toward God as it was feelings of frustration with being left alone and losing the one he loved so dearly and had grown so close to over their years together.

But it is important for us to understand that this void left by the loss of a spouse proves and confirms that two individual people do in fact become one flesh, just as God’s word teaches us.

Thus, the great struggle to move beyond the devastation and loss and live life again.

It does happen. Life does go on despite the remaining person wondering if that is even possible.

But each person recovers differently, in their own time, as they let God heal their heart and help them move forward one little step at a time.

There are valuable lessons for each of us to learn, both as someone who loses a spouse, and for those who help someone who has lost their lifetime love.

And there are opportunities for each of us to help someone who is grieving by being there for them to talk to, cry with, and hold onto tightly as they walk through their mourning.

We hope these messages have helped bring a better understanding of two human beings becoming one as ordained and designed by God.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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