Pastor John,
I was doing yard work late in the day yesterday, and noticed several sheriffs’ vehicles traveling in procession down hwy. 62 in front of the house. I stopped what I was doing and watched, and then saw bright red tractor trailer freight-haulers, all from the same company, lined up behind the sheriff’s vehicles. And then the same company’s dump trucks followed them, all the same color and all brand new, moving down the road in uniformity. It was apparent that it was a funeral procession, and the grand scale of it gave me a feeling of awe. Dozens if not a hundred or more 4-wheel drive trucks then followed, contractor’s trucks I believe, then the normal line of vehicles with blinking lights behind them; it seemed to go on forever. As I watched I realized this must have been the company owner that had passed, or his immediate family. And the thought of his / her loved ones grieving them right then, nearly took my breath. With a pain in my heart for those people, I said “Lord, this world is so full of pain and loss.” And in response, I heard a line from one of Darren’s songs, “I am securing you from loss.”
I realized then that what Jesus did at Calvary, saves me from this kind of “loss”, if I let it. It saves those in Heaven from mourning us when we leave this world. And that there will never be a funeral procession in Heaven for those who are kept by His spirit.
So sweet, and so sad.
Jerry