Save Our Griefs to Ourselves
18 Aug 2018 | 1 min readsermon2018subang | sorrow
How do we deal with grief? By expressing it to others or soldier it on alone?
- Patience and perseverance is the key
The Chinese character for grief is formed with ‘trouble’ placed above the ‘heart’.
- Grief is formed by evil intentions
- However, grief can also build character
Romans 15: 1-3
- In times where we pursue our own selfish desires, we could indirectly do it over the well-being of others.
- Instead, it should be the opposite – pleasing others above ourselves
- The passage reads “for even Christ did not please himself..”
-Merely attending church services isn’t an indication of how religious a person is – its how we manifest His teachings in our daily lives.
-The faith of Abraham was one that suffered grief alone and in return, spread happiness to others. Gen 13: 6 Lot and Abraham had disputes due to having too many possessions, not because they were in poverty. Quarreling over riches is worse than that of a poor man.
- The poor would argue over spending matters and is usually trivial in value
- The rich would argue over significant amounts of wealth which could potentially lead to murder
-Verse 14 Suffering lost is only a gain. After Lot departed from Abraham, the Lord offered Abraham vast amounts of land for him and his offsprings.
-At what occasions do we save grievances to ourselves? – when we are slandered
-Numbers 12: 1-2 Moses’ own brothers and sisters talked ill of him. Their real motives were revealed in verse 2 when it writes “hasn’t the Lord also spoken through us and not just Moses”.
-There are times when certain trivial arguments are precursors to larger dissatisfaction.
-Moses didn’t quarrel or react to their statements – he was a humble man and contained the grievances within himself. -In verse 4, the Lord spoke to Moses, Miriam and Aaron. Here shows the Lord reassuring His people that He is with them. -Sometimes, in order to prevent arguments from blowing out of proportion we must learn to keep grievances to ourselves.
-No matter how much we are being unfairly accused, always remember that God is watching over us.
-2 Cor 12: 15-16 Paul had a deep love for the church of Corinth. Although he was accused of being a crafty fellow for tricking them, Paul didn’t express his grief – he had sincere love for the church.
-“If I love you more, will you love me less?”
-1 Cor 4: 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court. Paul’s accountability is with the Lord. He continues to serve despite being wrongly accused.
-Prov 17: 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother. Foolish isn’t the inability to think but rather viewing himself as wise in his own eyes.
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