Pressure of Bereavement
• 1 min. read • grade level: 9
There is another pressure to which all of us have at some time or other responded, and that is bereavement. It is something to contemplate that we belong to a company, the people of God, who, throughout all ages, will enter into the world to come, the eternal state, as having known in greater or lesser degree the pressure that has come from bereavement. If it be the definite word, “With pain thou shalt bear children” (JND), so the word, “In pressure Thou hast enlarged me” applies, so that none of us is suffered to pass through this scene and to live here among others, but there must come the constriction of the heart’s affections, the throbbing of grief, in bereavement. It comes to all. It is the Lord’s prerogative to touch us in that way. How much does that constriction of heart enlarge us! As the blessed Lord could say at the grave of Lazarus, “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” (John 11:4040Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (John 11:40)).