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What Can I Say? A Graveside Service
Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 6, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: What do we do or say when someone is taken from us unexpecrtedly?
There are times that we don’t know what to say. This is one of those times. ___ died unexpectedly and we are speechless.
• We don’t understand why this happened.
• We can speculate but we don’t know.
• We are left frustrated, angry, and sorrowful.
Words seem inadequate, even well-intentioned words.
The Bible gives us insights into what we CAN do when we don’t know what to do or say.
1. Give and Receive Comfort from Others – John 11:19 (NKJV)
19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
2. Know the Presence of Jesus – John 11:32-35 (NKJV)
32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
3. Pray When You Can’t – Romans 8:26-27 (NKJV)
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
4. Pray When You Can – 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
Remember Romans 8:35-39 (NKJV):
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
