There IS Healing ... There IS Justice

Many tears have been shed over the last 24 hours for the Bosma family by 1000's of people--many who don't even know them personally.  The pain is deep and real; though for many of us our pain is only a minuscule fraction of the pain that those closest to Tim must be feeling.

In the midst of these tears I know many of you, like me, have also had a deep longing for justice -- perhaps struggling with the fact that this all seems so unjust at the moment.

Last post I asked you to pray -- even if you didn't feel like it.  I ask you to continue.  As you do I also want us to remember that there IS HEALING, and there IS JUSTICE.  We do not hope and pray in vain.

As you pray let me leave you with some portions of from Revelation 21 & 22 which I have been finding helpful as I have been praying...Use these Scriptures to reflect and pray:

21:3-5 -- "I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: 'Look! God's dwelling is with men, and He will live with them.  They will be His people and God Himself will be with them...He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.  Death will exist no longer; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away.'  Then the One seated on the throne said, 'Look!  I am making everything new.'  He also said, 'Write, because these words are faithful and true!'"

--Read this over for yourself a few times and then pray!

• Today we have the Spirit of God dwelling within us -- yet we still live in a world tortured by sin and evil.  But we have a promise:  God will make His dwelling with His people!  
• Know as you pray that Tim is in the dwelling of his Heavenly Father!  Pray that this fact would be a comfort to his wife and family!
• Notice God will personally wipe our tears from our eyes!  Today we weep, there is pain, and grief over a tragic loss.  But one day -- none of these will exist!  God Himself will make sure of it--He promises that His words are "faithful and true"!
• Thank God for His mercy and love!  Pray for a Divine foretaste of this comfort to come to the Bosma family even today!

21:7-8 -- "he who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son!  But for the cowardly and unbelieveing and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire..."

• There are two promises here -- GRACE & JUSTICE
• Pray knowing that Tim has inherited eternal life in Jesus Christ!  Praise God!  
• Pray knowing that God is just.  
• Again I will ask you to pray a difficult prayer -- pray that even those who ended Tim's life would come to know the GRACE of God -- for without it their is no hope!

In Revelation 22 it speaks of the River of Life flowing from the Throne of God and the Lamb -- this river feeds the Tree of Life that produces fruit and leaves for the healing of nations!  (Rev 22:1-2)

• Again this complete healing will only come when Jesus returns to make all things new -- there are wounds that will leave deep scars for the rest of our earthly lives --yet even so there is healing and comfort today, with the promise that healing will be complete when all is made new. 
• Pray that healing would come to the Bosma family.  Pray that though wounds will surely remain--they can move forward in the hope and assurance that Tim is in the presence of His Heavenly Father and one day they will join him there.

Thanks for joining me in praying for this family!  I also know many of you are reaching out in other ways as well -- Please feel free to link any of those initiatives that you are aware of so that we all can reach out and care for the Bosma family in whatever way that we can.  

(I have put some info on donating to the family in the comment section)