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Searching the Bible on Behalf of us Bereaved Parents
as we Grieve Our Great Loss…
By Your Side
– Tenth Avenue North
Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away
Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run
And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you
Look at these hands and My side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life
(Chorus 2x)
Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go
(Chorus 2x)
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How do I survive? How do I face each day?
How do I go on knowing I’ll never see my baby girl again this side of Heaven?
The words of this song tell me why – He is by my side, and He’ll never let me go. He loved me enough… He loved my baby girl enough… to drink the world’s sin so He could carry me in…so He could carry her in…to Heaven that night.
She is safe; my baby girl is safe. My baby girl that I love with all my heart…is safe with Jesus, is safe in His arms. He holds her close to His heart; He carries His lamb. He took her to safety.
He was there that night, with her, with her when I couldn’t be… He grabbed her up in His arms…and took her to safety…
Safety forevermore…from the Enemy, the Enemy who was out to destroy her life… And he did; the Enemy did destroy her life that night…but not forever. The Son of God died so that couldn’t happen. He put Life inside her…that wouldn’t die…that would never die…but would live eternally…By His Side.
And that is why I can live…that is why I can go on…that is why I can have peace…in the midst of my pain…because I know…He Is By Her Side, and…He Is By My Side.
And we are both…Alive in Him. Her spirit is alive. Alive. Alive in Him.
She is safe. She is alive.
She is with Him. She is with me.
And we are both…
By His Side!
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11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart…
Isaiah 40:11
1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1 NIV
13It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause
thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
1 Corinthians 4:13-18
So I fix my eyes
…not on what is seen,
…but on what is unseen.
For what is seen
…is temporary,
but what is unseen
…is eternal!
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