What is it about sorrow and grief that is so powerful? Even in the happiest of times, both have the ability to overshadow the good.
"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness and grief." Proverbs 14:13, Amplified
It is so true that happy times may just lead back to sorrow and grief. But why? Why is it that sorrow and grief cause us to forget about the good times that we have experienced in our lives? How is it that a wonderful marriage can end with a crying wife that is left by a husband? Or that the end of a great life ends with a sorrowful funeral?
The answer is simple. We live in a fallen world where happiness and mirth do no necessarily belong. At the point of our conversion to Christianity, we are instructed to read the "Good Book" (or the Bible) everyday. The Bible is riddled with lives surrounded by suffering and turmoil. The Apostle Paul was jailed and beaten and shipwrecked. The Apostle John ended his life exiled on an island. All the disciples that followed Christ suffered persecution and death (as they were promised). King David, a man after God's own heart, ran from his own son who desired to kill him. These men, as well as many others had times of great joy in their lives, but in the end, sorrow and grief seemed to always find them.
We live in a fallen world where sin and the devil have free reign. What once belonged to the Lord was taken from Him and now He is just an invited guest in the hearts of His children. There will be a day when He reclaims what He has made, but for now, sin and the devil have control of this world.
God had created a utopia for Adam and Eve, a wonderful Garden for them to live in. Two commands were given to them. Do not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden and be fruitful and multiply. Even before they could be faithful to the Lord on the second command, they transgressed and ate from the tree. A curse was laid upon man and this earth. "Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return." (Genesis 3:17b-19, NKJV)
What began as a time of great happiness was suffixed by a curse of sorrow and grief. Sin and the devil had everything to do with it, as well as the free will of man. So enjoy those happy times in our lives and rest assured that the happiest time still awaits us in heaven where sorrow and grief will not and do not exist.
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