The Imprisonment of Grief

We can go through grief by not holding onto the idea of the strangeness of it. Spurgeon's morning devotion from May 31st points to 2 Samuel 15:13.

This morning’s devotion spoke of:

·   Kidron the filthy brook that flowed through Jerusalem as being symbolic of sorrow.

·   David being both the Lord’s Anointed and the Lord’s Afflicted. “Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow’s gates…”

·   King Jesus himself having to go over the brook Kidron too. Specifically quoting, “In all our afflictions he was afflicted.”

Spurgeon says, “The idea of strangeness in our trials must be banished at once and forever, for he who is the Head of all saints, knows by experience the grief which we think so peculiar.”

The idea of strangeness is allowing our thought patterns to determine this experience is something abnormal. It leads to unhealthy thoughts and actions.