Meaning in Sorrow

Death does not fit life. Nowhere do we feel the need for meaning as strongly as when we lose someone we love. Death makes no sense, and when it happens, especially unexpectedly or to a younger person, everything within us screams, This is not right! The reason our souls scream is because it is true. God has told us that death was not supposed to be part of our experience. It only exists because in the beginning the human race rejected Him.

But a relationship with God can bring meaning even when we experience death. He tells us that not only can we understand it, but we can go through it and still have hope and the understanding that His purposes are still at work. He promises us that He is still there, that He is bigger than death, and that even when we die, we will be taken to Him and also be reunited with those who have gone before us to be with Him (1 Thessalonians 5:13-18). To know that your loved ones are still alive, simply in another dimension we cannot see, is not only immensely comforting but brings meaning to what could be the ultimate meaninglessness. Without faith, we could feel that "life seems so meaningless" when someone dies. But when we understand that God is still there, beyond death, and that He has explained death to us, we can thrive even when death is a part of the bigger picture.

Faith in God gives us meaning when we are alive, when we struggle, when we lose someone we love, and when we die. In short, God is the meaning of it all. And when we are connected to Him, we find out why we are here and what it all means.






The Law of Happiness: Henry Cloud



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