Children's Chapel Ask a Minister - "Won't we be sad in heaven if we die and go to heaven before our loved ones?"

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Question: Hi my name is Bridgette. I wanted to ask you a question. Won't we be sad in Heaven? Because if we die before another loved one, won't we miss them?

Answer:

Dear Bridgette,

This is a great question!

I believe when we go to heaven before our loved ones, God gives us a certain grace to keep us from worry and fear about the ones we left behind.

I read in the book of Revelation: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." (Revelation. 21:4-5)

I believe that this means even sorrow and crying for LOST loved ones will be finished. It will be God that is able to do this in us. It is His amazing Grace that can provide this kind of peace. It may be that we are so fixated on Heaven that one cannot help but forget about this world and others that did not make heaven. (Isaiah. 26:3) One thing for sure, we must do our best to reach souls for Christ while there is time. The Bible also states in Hebrews 9:27 - "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" Oh that we might believe God to save our loved ones before it is too late!

Here is some additional commentary on the above verses which might help:

Matthew Henry writes:

1. All the effects of former trouble shall be done away. They have been often before in tears, by reason of sin, of affliction, of the calamities of the church; but now all tears shall be wiped away; no signs, no remembrance of former sorrows shall remain, any further than to make their present felicity the greater. God himself, as their tender Father, with his own kind hand, shall wipe away the tears of his children; and they would not have been without those tears when God shall come and wipe them away.

2. All the causes of future sorrow shall be for ever removed: There shall be neither death nor pain; and therefore no sorrow nor crying; these are things incident to that state in which they were before, but now all former things have passed away.

The People's New Testament Commentary writer states:

No sorrow or travail of any kind shall ever enter within the walls of the city. The cry of anguish shall never be uttered, hearts shall never be broken, no tear shall ever dim the eye, and, most glorious of all, death shall be unknown. Death began his sway when man was expelled from Paradise; he ends it when the final judgment condemns Satan, death and hades to enter the lake of fire. The new Jerusalem will be painless, tearless, deathless, because it will be a sinless city. "The former things have passed away."

I hope this helps!

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