If you have ever engaged someone in conversation who has just given up a loved one in death you realize how difficult it can be to say just the right thing. You don’t want to sound trite, uncaring or flippant. If the person you are seeking to comfort was a believer and the deceased was a believer, the words in I Thessalonians 4:13-17 can be of profound help. Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Thessalonians was telling his readers how to comfort one another.
- When Jesus returns He will bring your loved one and the thousands like your loved one with Him. Today they are absent from the body and present with the Lord.
- The Bible assures us that the bodies of those who have gone on will be raised at the resurrection when Jesus comes and receive a new body, free from the pain they may have known in this life.
- Those believers that are alive and remain until Jesus returns will be caught up, or raptured, immediately after the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
- We shall be changed and they and we will receive new, glorified bodies like the resurrected body of Jesus.
- We will forever be with the Lord and our loved one.
It need not sound like a theological dissertation. Put the passage in you words. You may wish to make more than one visit using this passage. God bless you as you comfort someone.
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