Elijah Abanto’s Reviews > Grief: Walking with Jesus > Status Update

Day 28 - “My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?” | “When Jesus felt God-forsaken, he did not talk behind his Father‘s back; he talked to and with his Father. And, when Jesus was ready to go home, he didn’t talk about God; he talked to, surrendered to, and trusted in God alone.”

Day 27 - “Not My Will But Thine Be Done” | “We often follow the false belief that life is either/or: either we are honest with our desires or we reverently submit to God‘s will. Jesus models the both/and truth: we can be honest with our desires, and we can be humble in our submission.”

Day 26 - “Watch with Me” | “God did not design us to grieve alone. God designed the body of Christ to grieve together. God causes his people to “rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15).

Day 25 - “Man of Sorrows” | “If you ever needed scriptural permission to grieve, if you ever needed a biblical reminder that grief is normal, you should find it here in Gethsemane with Jesus... Since it is honorable and holy for Jesus to grieve, deeply, it is honorable and holy for you to grieve deeply.”

Day 24 - “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled” | “If this life is all there is, then hopelessness is understandable. So Jesus directs our troubled hearts to a trustworthy God and an untroubled future. Our God not only fearfully and wonderfully makes us, but it also fearfully and wonderfully making an eternal home for us— where we will dwell with Jesus forever.”

Day 23 - “Grieving, Yet Giving, by Gripping God” | “We grieve, yet give, by gripping God. Or, better yet, we grieve, yet give, by grasping that God is gripping us.”

Day 22 - “Jesus Laments” | “It’s typically easy to lament over our pain. But Jesus is lamenting over [people’s] sin, lostness, and away-ness. That’s other-centered lament. That’s gospel-centered lament.”

Day 21 - “What Shall I Say?” | “Jesus models both grieving loss while glorifying God, and feeling our pain while surrendering to our Father. What shall you and I say in our pain? ‘Save me from this’? Or ‘Father, glorify your name’?”

Day 20 - “Lord, Have Mercy” | “‘Get over it. Don’t you know that time heals all wounds? You’ve had more than enough time!” Those are lies of the blind. Time does not heal. The Timeless One heals.”

Day 19 - "The Spirit's Power" | "Sometimes our hurt is so deep that our number one goal (as well as goals two to ninety-nine) is to stop hurting. [The Bible] suggests another goal: God's glory."