Be keen
We recently attended the funeral of a friend and during the ceremony, many of her favorite gospel songs were sung. When the hymn, How Great Thou Art was sung, I knew deep in my soul that soon our own little church choir would be singing that song. I knew that when we did, it would be my friend’s way of saying “hello” to me.
Two days later, our choir director had chosen How Great Thou Art as our closing hymn.
My grandmother passed away many years ago. For a couple of weeks after her funeral, there were times when something would happen during the day that would bare her “finger prints”. It seemed as though she was telling me she loved me.
Last week I shared with a friend whose brother had recently died that we need to be aware of what goes on around us after a loved one leaves us. We need to be keen about every little thing. She agreed and testified that she too had recently received a little “hello” from her brother.
Scripture tells us we have a great cloud of witnesses around us and I believe these witnesses include our redeemed loved ones. I believe they are alive and well and far more alert to what is going on than we who live under the weight of worry, cares, and life in general.
Scripture also tells us in 1 Corinthians that we do not see clearly in this life, that we only see in a mirror dimly, but later in our new life we will see face to face. Now we know only in part, but later we will know fully just as we also have been fully known.
While we live, let us lay the groundwork that will help lead us to a happy eternity where we can be included in the great cloud of witnesses and see face to face our God who is the God of the living.
Post Script: I do believe these thing which I write, but there is always a little part in me that says, “Ya, whatever.” After I had written the above paragraphs, I put it aside to reread later. Then I opened my facebook page and the first thing that I saw was a photograph of my husband’s favorite sister. She was smiling her mischievous smile as if to say, “I love you and tell Earl I love him so much. And tell him to look at his facebook page!” She passed away a year and a half ago. Love you too, Dolly!
