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                                            The loss of a child is likely the greatest tragedy on earth. No parent can fathom losing a child, no matter what age the child is. So if youโre a parent who has lost a child, whether the loss occurred through miscarriage, crib death, disease, accident, su***de, violence, or natural causes, your childโs death has produced enormous trauma and grief for you. Death is a trauma. Spiritually, physically, emotionally, and socially.
God does not expect you to accept the loss of a child without feeling the overwhelming weight of loss and confusion. Jesus himself was called โthe Man of Sorrows.โ He wept over Lazarusโ death at the tomb (John 11:35), he raised Jairusโ daughter from the dead in front of her distraught parents (Mark 5:41-42), and he lamented over Israelโs rejection of him as the Messiah, saying, โI have longed to gather you โฆ like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would notโ (Matthew 23:37). Everywhere Jesus went, he drew close to the brokenhearted and oppressed. He loves us like a parent, and he feels loss like a parent.
Thereโs some good news for you if you suffer from losing a child. God intends to walk with you through your suffering, grow you in your suffering, and deliver you from it. By engaging in prayer for the loss of a child, we may receive this comfort from God.๐๐พ๐๏ธ๐
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