Ember G Writes

I am going to be writing about my faith and some recent loss in this post, if you feel uncomfortable please don’t feel like you have to stay. I also ask you to remain respectful, any rude/insensitive comments will be deleted and you will be blocked…

Hello everybody, how are you? How has your week been? Let me know, I genuinely want to know.

Not going to lie, I have been trying to write this blog for the past week. Every time I tried to sit down and write, it felt forced and unsincere – not authentic. I try to be transparent (or as transparent as I can be) on this blog page but sometimes, it is difficult.

This past week has just not been good, there has been a fair few recent deaths of people who I knew/knew of. It just has not been nice, at all. I’m pretty sure this blog post is definately not going to be a light one…

I guess there is a deep heaviness I feel, to be honest I only really knew one of the people who have recently passed away. I had a few passing conversations with the others, I do know that they had been battling illnesses (long and short term). I prayed most nights for those individuals and their healing.

“Why didn’t God heal them?” it’s a big, frequent question we ask and it is also a very difficult one to come to terms with. In the book God on Mute by Pete Greig, he tackles that very question in the best and most sensitive way. Unfortunately, I am not Pete Greig! The answer I guess I can give would be; whatever brings God glory/I don’t really know myself.

There has been many occassions that I have witnessed a lack of healing but there has also been multiple occassions of healing that I have seen. God wants to heal people, but what most people don’t realise is there is an ongoing battle in the unseen world.

Sometimes the enemy comes to play, sometimes God allows him to win because he has something bigger in mind. God sent Jesus to die for us, Jesus defeated death and now, we have the gift of eternal life. You can recieve it through the Grace of God, we repent to recieve that grace – more specifically, repenting to be able to accept the gift. It’s knowing that no matter what we do – that grace is available for everyone and anyone.

Most of the people who have passed away, accepted that from God. The one who I am not sure did is – funilly enough, a member of my family. Now if you have followed my blog for the past 2 years (this will be year 3) will know that most of my family are Christians or followers of Christ. I was brought up in a Christian home but I made my own personal decision to become a follower of Christ (I was 18 years old).

It is never to late to follow Jesus, he is waiting for you with open arms and a big smile. He wants to hold you and tell you he loves you, no matter what you have done or who you are. He sees us at our worse, he sees us at our best… Jesus sees us. How incredible is that?

In the next blog I am going to write about my own personal journey with faith and loss, it’s a long story but I want to share it!

Who knows, it might just help one of you?