BELOVED PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED:
AND, YOU DON’T KNOW IF THEY ARE WITH THE LORD?

 

HERE’S WHAT I DO…

If you remember, I have a son in Heaven and a sister. Absolutely I know they are with God and I will see them eventually. I am patient; they are fine, more than fine actually.

Selah.

Both of these people died unborn. My son (might be a daughter) went to the Lord when he was three months in my womb. Duane and I handled it quite well; knowing he was taken up. And my sister (may be a brother) also died in my mother’s womb.

And then I have a brother, (six years older) my mother, my father, all four grandparents…  All of whom I do not know where they are upon their deaths. Even is the same case  with my Aunt Lulu (whom I was named after.) Not easy. Not God’s plan.

Obviously, I was not raised in the Church. I pretty much remember there was no praying to God in my childhood home…

Selah.

SO I HOPE!

Daily I will ask God, my Father, to tell them I love them, to tell them I am happy they are with Him (only if they are.) And to please tell them I am excited to meet them (if that is the case as with my son and sister) or to see them again (as in the case of my mother, father, brother, and all.)

IT IS VERY COMFORTING.

Selah.

See the good ideas God gives we who ask?

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:

 

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

 

Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants

 

1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

 

 

DO NOT, I repeat, do not pray for the dead:

 

Deuteronomy 18:9-13
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.  Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,  or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.  Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.  You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

 

Leviticus 19:31
 “‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.