“And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
The hardest experience most people will have is the death of a loved one. This is the time when you just wish that the world would stop for a while so that you can take time to grieve. However, the world just doesn’t stop. If you look out the window you will see people going about their lives as if nothing had ever happened. They don’t even know that you are suffering, let alone care that you are suffering. Abraham showed us how to get on with life. He stood up from before his dead and looked for a place to bury his dead. This doesn’t mean that Abraham didn’t love Sarah or that he didn’t miss her, he did but he also knew that the world wouldn’t stop and he would have to get up every morning for the rest of his life without her. Too often people are troubled by issues from their past and they allow these issues to cloud their appreciation of today. Abraham had the right idea, he buried his dead out of his sight. It is good for us to leave the past behind and keep moving forward looking to Lord for guidance and comfort (see Phil 3: 13).
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