Mom Let Me Love You Once Again Summary

I love this painting by my buddy Ron DiCianni, for the book we did together, Tell Me Virtually Heaven. As the angels carried Lazarus to Paradise in Luke sixteen, this is Granddaddy being transported to Jesus.

I'd like to address a question that came upwardly in a web log annotate. I effigy other readers might have read the question and may be interested, since I've been asked it many times over the years.

The question was, from a biblical standpoint, is it okay to talk to our loved ones who've gone on to be with Jesus?

Showtime, would it fifty-fifty be possible for someone in Heaven to know what'southward happening on earth, and be able to hear us say anything? Many assume the answer is no. Merely in Matthew 17, Moses and Elijah clearly already knew the events going on when they appeared with Jesus on the mountain of transfiguration. In Luke 15 Jesus speaks of rejoicing in the presence of the angels, not BY the angels just in their presence, whenever a sinner repents, suggesting God's people in heaven rejoice at God'south work in lives on earth. To rejoice at it, they obviously must be aware of it. And Revelation 6:9-eleven shows martyrs in Heaven who are clearly aware that God hasn't still brought judgment on those who persecuted them, and are wondering why. So they know some of what's happening on earth.

Okay, so if it's possible someone in Sky could hear u.s., is it correct to talk to them? First, there's a huge difference between talking to someone and praying to them, and information technology's disquisitional we go on that articulate. When people pray to Mary and the saints, they are calling on them equally intermediaries, request them to intervene and exercise power in this earth. There is no biblical basis for this. Since 1 Tim. ii:5 says Christ is the only mediator betwixt God and men, it would violate this to pray to those in heaven. We're not to pray to people or to angels, merely only to God.

Only would it exist okay to say, "I'm not sure you can hear this, Mom, but if yous tin can I only want to say cheers for how you always watched out for me. I love you and I'm looking forward to seeing you again and talking and having you show me some special places there."

That's talking to someone, but it's NOT praying to them, calling upon them to practice something, or to exercise power or talk back.

Seeking to call up from the expressionless or to hear from the spirits of the departed is a forbidden occult practice (Deut. 18:nine-14). Merely that'due south very unlike than doing what I merely described.

Personally, rather than talking to a loved one, I am more than comfy merely praying to Jesus or the Father (there are biblical examples of praying to each) and saying, "Lord, would you please requite my mom a hug, and tell her it's from me?" At present I think my mom sometimes sees what's going on here and might hear this when I say it, but I KNOW God hears information technology. And I trust God to do what He knows is best. Does that make sense?

I accept some one-time friends in Sky, Greg and Jerry among them, that I sometimes think of and enquire the Lord to greet for me. Whether He does that is His telephone call, but my relationships with those brothers was a gift from God, and one day I'll see them again in His presence. I doubtable God is pleased with my sense of connection to them, and certainly He understands the bonds of friendship. Jesus called usa his friends. He is the best friend I've ever had.

I could see how a person speaking to their departed loved one, fifty-fifty if they're not violating Scripture (since they're not praying to them or calling on them), could become unhealthy or obsessive. Just that's not probable to happen when we're talking to God about them. He invites us to come to Him with what's on our minds and hearts. Obviously your loved ane is on your listen and heart. If your kid or wife or husband or parents or best friend are with Jesus, God understands your want to experience continued to them, and to want them to know of your love for them, and that you miss them and look forward to seeing them again.

I have every reason to believe God would accolade the asking to pass on our warm greetings to loved ones. Just again, that's upwardly to Him. It's ane thing to ask God for something like this, only entirely another to insist on it. Nosotros're the creatures, He'south the Creator. He'due south the Potter, we're the dirt. (And what a privilege to be His clay, also as his sons and daughters.)

And so, bottom line to the person who asked the question, every bit long equally y'all're not praying TO your loved one or FOR your loved 1 (who needs no prayer at present), merely to God About your loved ane, and your feelings, and your desire for them to know something, I think in that location'southward nil in that which violates a Scripture. Just exist careful it doesn't shift into anything that treats them as intermediaries or leads to obsession or seeking contact with them, which is expressly forbidden.

Here'south a picture of my Mom at our house, holding our oldest daughter Karina. Mom died only four months afterward our Angie was built-in. I said at both our daughters' weddings, in the summer of 2001, that I believed their 2 grandmothers were watching from heaven. And since Nanci's mom had been blind her last few years here, she was seeing the wedding ceremony in a mode she couldn't take even a few months earlier earlier she died.

I firmly believe this is truthful, but even if I was incorrect on that point (since of form I can't know exactly when God allows people to encounter events on world and when He doesn't), I would non be incorrect in praying "Lord, please tell Mom her precious granddaughters love You with all their hearts and married immature men that practice too. That will hateful and then much to her."

My guess is that Mom knows all that anyhow, and that she is enjoying seeing God at piece of work in the lives of our grandchildren, her great-grandchildren she hasn't yet been able to hug. (It'due south odd to me that then many assume people in Heaven are ignorant of what's going on here on earth where the great drama of redemption is unfolding—wouldn't we think they'd be more enlightened, not less?).

Still, it doesn't hurt to enquire God, the Giver of special relationships. He is gracious and agreement of our thoughts and feelings and love for the precious people He has put in our lives.

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Source: https://www.epm.org/blog/2008/May/2/can-we-or-should-we-talk-to-loved-ones-in-heaven

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