Out of your Cave

Healing from Loss; the cave of Machpelah

Genesis 23

“Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves …”   - Revelation 6:15

How to Find Healing in Loss …

         Go ahead—Grieve lavishly

            v1-2. “there Abraham mourned and wept for her.”
 

         Go ahead—Make your move

            v4. “…stranger and foreigner...”

1 Chronicles 29:15, “We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13, “And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.”

1 Thessalonians 4:18, “So encourage each other with these words.”

“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.”                                                       - Zechariah 12:10

         Go ahead—God is with you

            v20, “…transferred to Abraham … permanent…”

1 Cor 15:53-58, “For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” … But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ!”

Final thought:  It is when you are knocked to your knees that you find yourself in the right posture to rise again.