How can I describe this fully? It should be so easy to simply write to people telling them that being separated from someone you love is painful.
I find myself wanting to try to make it extra clear.
When a couple gets married and they love each other holding one another every night, seeing each other every morning, greeting one another with hugs & kisses as much as possible they get that special bond. When they spend time together, taking walks, bike riding, seeing the sunset, having a picnic, and just sitting alone together in their favorite cushy chair or sofa they’ve learned to enjoy one another with no one else around. It’s special and those moments are treasured.
When one of them is sent off to war and that person doesn’t come back home for a long time the one that is left behind is aching. Worse yet if the person sent to war never comes back home because they died the emptiness for their mate seems almost unbearable.
Forget all about that young love stuff they call puppy love. Yeah, the puppy love thing is traumatic enough for some young people. Even they think their sorrow is so large they will never get over the pain of being separated from their crush.
Anyone that has ever loved someone and been separated from that person knows exactly what I’m trying to say here. It is painful to be separated from those you love.
God is love. People that don’t know Him will be separated from the one who is love. If a person neglects to come to know the Saviour they will always have a void within. The emptiness that comes to them will always be there. Until they fully give their life over to God accepting the free gift of salvation they will know an emptiness at times.
I have a friend that has to see her Mother grieving over the loss of her Father. I have a couple of other friends that are going through a divorce. These people are sad right now and their future may continue to hold grievous times of sadness and pain because of the separations they are going through.
If you know anything about this kind of pain you will want to do everything possible to make sure you have accepted Jesus Christ into your heart as your personal Lord & Savior. You will also want all your loved ones to know Jesus is Lord, too.
I pray that you will have just the right words to try to describe to them the importance of them spending some time talking with the God of the whole universe while there is time for them to repent & get right with God.
Many confess that they believe in God. Many even speak about Jesus as if they’ve loved & known Him all their lives but it doesn’t mean a thing if they have not repented of their sins.
Jesus said, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” His kingdom is not of this world. His kingdom is the place talked about in the book of Revelation. [Mark 4:17, 17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.] There is going to be a new heaven and a new earth. [Rev. 21:1-2, 1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.]
[Rev. 21:3-8,3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.]
The unbelievers will not be in a pleasant place. Don’t be fooled into thinking God is going to neglect to deal with those who only pretended to know Him.
Pray you can find a way to tell the people God puts in your path the love story. Jesus died on the cross for your sins. Those who really believe in Him can receive salvation. You will know who really believes in Him by the things they do. You will know them by their fruit.
If they’ve known the pain of losing people they love and they dearly miss the ones they love let them know that the pain they feel over losing a loved one to death or divorce is not even close to the pain that will be felt by those who don’t choose to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior & Lord. Being separated from God is being separated from the one who loves us best.