By Peter Kennedy
"Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them. They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword." - 2 Samuel 1:11-12
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down. That evening in Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobby Kennedy was campaigning for President of the United States. He stood in the back of that flatbed truck and was the one who announced to the crowd that Dr. King had just been killed.
With a trembling voice Bobby spoke: “For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and distrust at the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I can only say that I feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to go beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: ‘In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’”
Mourning is an inevitable loss on earth. Today in prayer, thank Jesus that in Him, we have overcome death, one day all mourning will come to an end, and we will see those who trust in Him again in Heaven.
"Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity." - Mother Teresa
God's Word: "Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him." - Acts 8:2
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