Grief is teaching yourself to go to bed without saying good night to the one who had died. Grief is the helpless wishing that things were different when you know they are not and never will be again. Grief is a whole cluster of adjustments, apprehensions, and uncertainties that strike life in is forward progress and make it difficult to redirect the energies of life . We've all faced grief. We've all in one form or another suffered the pain of loss and separation.
Death brings grief.
The death of a friend, mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, wife or husband is a loss we never quite overcome, even years later. We not only grieve over death but also over divorce the loss of a friendship or the loss of a job. To live is to experience the emotional anguish we call grief. The centerpiece of our text is v.30. All sin pains the heart of God.