Wednesday // 28th August 2024
THE DEADLY NATURE OF GRIEF
....sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
Grief comes disguised as a simple "healthy" emotion. Then, little by little, it drains you dry. It is devious and destructive, and it's the constant companion of death itself.
SINGING THE Sorrowful songs is one of humanity's favorite pastimes. Everyone does it in one form or another. Drunkards do it on their barstools and blubber about how hard life is. Christians clutch their hymnals and sing mournfully about the same thing. They all think they're doing it because they're sad. But they're not. They're doing it because, in a peculiar kind of way, they like it.
Why would we actually choose to feel sorrow? Because sorrow has an emotional kick to it. It offers a surge of feeling that, in the beginning stages, is almost intoxicating. But it's interesting to notice that the really great sad song singers don't usually live very long. Grief and sorrow are not innocent emotions. They are actually spirit beings sent by the devil himself to kill, steal, and destroy. They are part of the devastating, satanic barrage Jesus took on Himself when He died on the cross. Isaiah 53 says so. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. That phrase, "griefs and sorrows," can also be translated sickness, weakness, and pain. But any way you translate it, they're not at all to be nurtured or enjoyed. Let us ward off all such emotions in the name of JESUS. Amen!
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin
