God’s wisdom is powerful and comforting (also read my example prayers for blessings). The experience expands our perspective to think about what happens when we die. It’s not uncommon to see family members revisit their faith after loss. Funeral scripture can help bring perspective and peace of mind to friends and family and reassure that their loved one is at peace and safe in heaven. In most families of faith, Biblical Scripture will be recited during a funeral. To think about never seeing them again is painful to think about, and loss brings on emotions that we rarely experience. Our close friends and family play an important role in our development and they are people we see frequently. Lean On God After Loss Attending the funeral of a loved-one is one of the most difficult things we will do in life. Betsy and her husband José live in Arlington, Texas and love hanging out with their two young adult children.God has a way of providing peace to us even in the most difficult of times and these Bible verses share God’s hope for our loved-ones and for those who have lost their family and friends. Her book More of God is a distracted woman’s guide to more meaningful quiet times. Connect with Betsy and get a free Quiet Time Renewal Guide at. We know that our Redeemer lives, and He restores hope, even in death.īetsy de Cruz writes and speaks to help overwhelmed women take small steps to invite more of God’s presence and power into their lives. May Jesus, our Great Shepherd, show Himself near to those mourning the loss of loved ones. These psalms for funerals, as well as quotes from Scripture and famous writers, can soothe our hearts when grief overwhelms our souls. “When words are most empty, tears are most apt.” – Max Lucado “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor RooseveltĢ5. “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” – PericlesĢ4. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die… He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”Ģ2. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’ He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?’” For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,Įven there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.” If I go up to the heavens, you are there if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.” That I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living… “Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.įor you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” The Lord will keep you from all harm-he will watch over your life The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. “The Lord watches over you-the Lord is your shade at your right hand The wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.” The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him Īs far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.Īs a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him įor he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
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