Healing Hearts: On the Road with Grief

 ON THE ROAD WITH GRIEF

I've experienced grief before, so I know the ups and downs that I have gone through when my loved ones have died. It is not easy! It's a daily uphill battle! 

Just when you think you're doing well with your emotions, a trigger strikes or your mood swings low into that death valley, and you're shaken to your core with unwanted thoughts. You struggle, you cry, you try to rest, you work harder, you distract yourself, you do everything in your power to stop feeling the pressure of it all. But that's just it....we have no power over darkness and the evil of this world. We are mere human beings who are nothing without our Creator, God the Father! 

We MUST cling to the Lord Jesus Christ as we walk the road of grief! If we don't, then we are going to be spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally beaten down, lied to, and tricked by the devil. Two days ago, suddenly my mood changed about my daughter's recent death, and I fell into the trap of thinking about it all again. Not good! 

1 Peter 5:8 tells us to resist and stand firm, "Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." 

By the time I realized what was happening to me, I was thinking I'm ready to die, too. Just push me into an open grave and cover me up! That is not the way of our Good Lord; it is evil through and through. 

Ephesians 6:11 says, "Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes." 

Our world is the devil's domain, but in 1 John 10:10, it says, Who is it that overcomes the world? It is only those who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 

After I prayed through the devil's attack, I was okay again. Praise the Lord! 

Friends, it's a daily attack. We must be on our guard for the devil and demons know what to use and how to use our weaknesses to spiritually attack us. 

But, as I am on this road with mourning, I know God is with me....I just have to keep my thoughts on good things and turn to Him for help. Psalm 12:1-7 states, "The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore." 

That's a sweet promise I keep in my thoughts when I have to dodge the potholes and muddy waters on the Grief Road. I'm healing my heart one day at a time...

God bless you and keep you!