For those who mourn

If you are missing someone tonight, you do not have to hurry through the sorrow. Scripture makes room for tears—and holds them inside a hope that death does not have the final word.

Blessed are those who mourn

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
Matthew 5:4

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

“Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”
Psalm 34:18

He heals the brokenhearted

“He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”
Psalm 147:3

We do not grieve as those who have no hope

13“But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13–14

No more tears

“He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4

Jesus wept too

“Jesus wept.”
John 11:35

He knows this sorrow.

A time for everything

1“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: 4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1–4, abridged