This is a classic question which might have been asked about Job or the Christian martyrs. Today I am asking that about the terrible accident with Stephen Curtis Chapman's children. One of his teen-age children ran over his youngest (age 5) and killed her last night. She was one of the three children he and his wife had adopted in China. So sad... I have not gotten a satisfactory answer to the question--guess that will just have to wait.
My favorite story about just such a happening: A famous minister stood grieving over the casket of his only son and child. He wife asks, "Where is God now?" He answers, "He is standing here crying with us." I am sure that is so true considering all the promises of God's faithfulness.
Strong believers are not immune to grieving: Joseph wept at least seven times, David, 7 times, Paul 4 times. Jeremish compared his weeping to a fountain and a river of tears--Jer. 9:1; Lam. 3:48. The Psalmist wept until he drenched his couch and made his "bed swim." Psalm 6:6 Even Jesus wept over a doomed city, a friend's death and his painful sacrifice. Luke 19:41, John 11:33-35, Hebrews 5:7. However, the last mention of tears in the Bible is the promise that God shall wipe all of them away from the eyes of his redeemed. Rev. 21:4.
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