Interesting Blog Post

By Carey Nieuwhof (Connexus Community Church) on Web/Tech I was reading my bible this morning (I'm a One Year Bible guy) and ran across yet another verse I'm sure I've missed all these years. So much ministry energy is wasted trying to figure out why people die. You hear everything from "it must be God's will" to the ridiculous "they must have needed her more in heaven than we did on earth." I always find those conversations frustrating, disappointing and heartbreaking all at once. Because I'm not sure the image of God reflected in them bears much semblance to reality. Enter Psalm 116.15: "The Lord's loved ones are precious to him. It grieves him when they die". That's about a five year old New Living Translation rendition, but I love how it reads. I think that summarizes the heart of God so well. And I think if people could understand that the sin that entered the world and pains us so badly also pains the heart of God, our relationship with Him would run so much deeper and be filled with much more mutual love. URL: Have You Seen This?