Sadly over the past year I have heard of many deaths, from both friends and strangers. It truly saddens my heart. It always confuses me when others who are trying to comfort those grieving say that it was God's will for their loved one to die, especially a child. You can read just about any book in the Bible and you will find either a verse or a reference to the fact that God wants His people to prosper and live long and happy lives. One of the well-known verses to back this up is in Jeremiah. I know it by heart as it's one of Mother Dear's favourite verses.
Jeremiah 29:11God knows exactly what kind of life he wants us to have. He wants us to have thoughts of peace and not of evil, and to have an expected end or in other words a long life full of hope. When people say that it was God's will for a child or a father to die I fear they are completely wrong. Whenever I hear someone say this I think of Job. I have been reading through the entire Bible for over a year now, just letting God speak to me as I read, and the Book of Job really comforted me in more ways than one. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. So many terrible things happened to Job that definitely weren't God's perfect will for his life, but God was in control the entire time.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
I believe it is a falsehood, however comforting it may be, that it is God's will for any of His people to die without having lived a full life, but because sin has entered our world when Adam and Eve stepped out from God's perfect world our lives will be not be perfect.
However we know that all things work together for good (Romans 8:28). We know that He is always in control. We know that He will never forsake us. We know we have His promise of His return and will be reunited with those who are His children.
The Bible says in this world we will have tribulation, but be of good cheer because He has overcome the world (John 16:33)!
Be still. Know He is God.
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I've had friends pass away. I do believe that God can take terrible things and turn them into good. When my friend Kelly went to heaven, when she was 9, many people gave to help build an orphanage in Zambia. She always wanted to go there to help the children. Now her name will live with a purpose, even though she is gone.
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