Grief Over The Death Of Loved Ones

Those who have eternal hope, though grieving over the instant loss death brings and the painful absence that follows, must remember and will be comforted by the realization that when the believer is taken from this life, he or she is gathered into the place of the saints. As it says, Jacob was "gathered to his people." Absent from the body, face to face with the Lord. How simple yet how sacred the moment. With one quiet and final sigh, the old patriarch joined those eternal ranks. 
Genesis (49:1–33). 
God translates the life of an individual after death, and only then can we measure the significance of that life.

When a man or woman of God dies, nothing of God dies. We tend to forget that. We get so caught up in the lives of certain individuals that we begin to think we cannot do without them. What limited thinking! When even a mighty servant is gone, God has seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal. He has them ready, waiting in the wings. God always has a back-up plan.

Think about it. Through the ages He has had His men and women in every era to carry on His work. Never once has God been frustrated, wondering, What will My people do now that he's gone? Now that he/she is no longer with them? Our Creator-God is omnipotent. He is never caught short handed.

John Donne, seventeenth-century English poet, was not only one of that country's great poets but also one of her most celebrated preachers. He wrote eloquently about death:

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one Man dies, one Chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every Chapter must be so translated. God employ's several translators: some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by ware, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation; and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that Libraries where every book shall lie open to one another.

God translates the life of an individual after death, and only then can we measure the significance of that life.