STEEMCHURCH: For just as in Adam all die, also in Christ all will live again.

When a loved one dies, all our forces seem to fail us. We feel that part of us is dying with that loved one. It is difficult for us to accept that they will no longer be with us physically and until many times we feel that we will not be able to continue with that pain that invades our soul. Sometimes we do not understand God's decisions, but we must accept them. Because in that will are the great wonders and mysteries of our Heavenly Father.

Remember when Jesus, the Son of God died. His sacrifice was for our salvation, to free us from our destruction. God sent his only son to save us, not to judge us. so that everyone who believes and lives in him may be saved and have eternal life after death.

The Bible teaches us that our relationship with our deceased loved ones does not end. Although we can not physically see them, the letter to the Hebrews shows us a reality that escapes our sight:

Heb 12, 22-24 "You, on the other hand, have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem with its innumerable angels, to the assembly as a feast of the first citizens of heaven; God, universal judge, surrounded by the spirits of the righteous who have already reached their perfection; to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, carrying the blood that purifies and that cries out to God with more force than the blood of Abel. "

Then we could lose God that allows us to perceive that our loved ones who have passed away have not abandoned us and that they wrap us like a cloud.

2 Kings 6: 15-17 And he rose early in the morning, and he who served the man of God came out, and, behold, the army that had the city besieged, with horsemen and chariots. Then his servant said: Ah, my lord! What will we do? 16- He said: Do not be afraid, because more are those who are with us than those who are with them. 17- And Elisha prayed. and he said: And I pray you, O LORD, that you open your eyes so that you may see. Then Jehovah opened the eyes of the servant, and looked; and behold, the mountain was full of horsemen and chariots of fire around Elisha.
We could ask God then to open our eyes and allow us to perceive that those who have died have not abandoned us completely.

We must be comforted to know that those who left have returned to God and with him they will return.
To accept such a decision, let us remember the story of the seven brothers and their mother who were martyred during the Maccabean insurrection 2Mac-7.

2Mac 7, 26-29 "So much the king insisted, that the mother agreed to convince her son. He leaned towards him, and mocking the cruel tyrant, said to the boy in his native tongue: "My son, have mercy on me, that I have carried you in my breast nine months, I have nursed you three years, I have fed and educated you now. I ask you, my son, to look to heaven and earth and what is in it: to know that God made all this out of nothing and in the same way the human being was created. Do not fear this executioner; show yourself worthy of your brothers and accept death, so that I may recover you with them on the day of mercy. "
The mother took her faith and her strength in God and encouraged her son to accept death so as not to decline his beliefs in the heavenly father. And his consolation was that he would recover it on the day of mercy as we have been promised if we live in God and according to his laws.