Tears and Healing Peace in the Bible

 Transcribed by AI

Dear listeners, you are listening to our voice from Radio Voice of Life, broadcasting every morning on shortwave 31 meters. O Lord, see my loves. Dear listeners, I greet you, and we are happy to be serving you once again with another programme, as guests in your homes. Yes, I also extend my greetings to you, dear listeners. We truly feel happy and joyful when we come on air, and I am sure our listeners share in this joy as well.

Yes, a listener has asked why God created us for living and for love, yet placed death before us. What would life be like without death? This thought is not just from one listener but is something many of our listeners ponder, especially when they lose a family member or a loved one. There is a profound sadness that fills the hearts and minds of the entire family. Yes, they become sad, and according to the Bible, what does God’s word say about the grief and sadness humans feel in the face of death? What hope exists for meeting such beloved ones again in the future?

I believe, Shukra Jan, from our perspective as followers of Jesus Christ, that in Christianity, death is not an end but a beginning that leads to eternal life. In fact, if there were no death, our lives would be so long and burdensome that perhaps we would grow weary of this life. Death is a blessing, wouldn’t you agree? For our future, that is why the Apostle Paul says in the book of Philippians that in Christianity, death is a gain. As followers of Christ, we see death as a gain for us. When we die, in fact, we win, just like an athlete strives to win.

When we look at life from this perspective, dear listeners, all our sadness comes from the loved ones we can no longer see, not from a lack of faith that they are gone and that we will not see them again. Yes, especially since, in our programme, we have mentioned that many people, when they are ill and in pain, ask God for death, thinking that when they die, they will be at peace, free from pain and problems. This is the core issue.

Only, dear listeners, the future that opens for us lies in faith in Jesus Christ. Resurrection is the door that leads us to life, according to our faith in Jesus Christ. In the book of Revelation, it speaks of how all our sufferings and limitations—such as illness, sorrow, mourning, and old age—will be wiped away. The day will come when God will wipe away all tears from our eyes. God loves us because if there were no death, we would remain in our sufferings. In reality, our bodies are like a cocoon that with the arrival of death, opens up and our spirits are freed to reach eternity through faith in Jesus Christ.

Physical death is inevitable for all of us, but we must think about the second death, which is the topic of our programme today: what do love, healing, and peace mean in the Bible? Yes, let's listen to a beautiful hymn together.

Amen. That was a lovely song. Yes, dear listeners, as we have mentioned, the topic of our programme is love, healing, and peace in the Bible. We want to read from the second book of Kings in the Old Testament, from the first to the eleventh verse. Please listen carefully to what you are hearing. If you have a Bible, dear listeners, you can open it.

It says, "In those days, Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, 'Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you