Repeatedly in Acts 20, Paul reminded the Ephesians that it was the Word of God that built the church (20:20, 21, 24, 26–27, 32). Remember that God’s Word is still central and his promises are still true. All things that come into our lives pass through the hands of our loving father-even the hard things.ģ. While God’s providence is unsearchable, it’s always unmistakably and irrevocably good for his people. Why did God let Moses look into the land that he had labored to obtain for 40 years, only to tell him that he wasn’t going in? Why would God take the greatest missionary the world has ever known, Paul, and put him in jail for months and years at a time? How could it be that our founding pastor, after battling prostate cancer, would die of sudden heart attack just weeks after receiving a cancer-free diagnosis? Remember that God’s providence is mysterious and he does things we don’t understand. He invites us to carry our sad hearts to him.Ģ. He doesn’t chastise us for feeling burdened. With great sympathy, Jesus tells us to “come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matt. Similarly, when Moses died, the people of Israel wept and mourned for thirty days (Deut.
After hearing the news, Luke records that there was much weeping (v. In Acts 20, we find Paul telling the Ephesian elders that he would no longer see their faces again (v. On that Sunday, I turned our people to two passages of Scripture-Deuteronomy 34 and Acts 20-and drew out seven things to remember when your beloved pastor goes home.ġ. A holy and good God had covered us with a dark cloud. The previous Monday morning, on February 4, while fixing breakfast for his wife and preparing to lead a pastors’ fellowship, our founding pastor, Ted Christman, died suddenly of a massive heart attack. On that morning, I stood in front of our church on the first Sunday without our pastor of 46 years. I found myself in a similar place on Sunday, February 10, 2019. Your ever affectionate mother, Sarah Edwards O what a legacy my husband, and your father, has left us! We are all given to God and there I am, and love to be.
He has made me adore his goodness, that we had him so long. My very dear child, What shall I say? A holy and good God has covered us with a dark cloud. On the death of Jonathan Edwards, his wife wrote to their daughter, Esther:
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