How terrible. Prayers for the family, including you.
My prayers go out to you and your family. I know what it’s like to lose a child. You never get over it.
God bless you and your family.
This is such a sad post :-(
The only thing that could comfort in such a situation is faith in something larger than ourselves... and the knowledge that although he is absent from us here, that he lives on and is safe. The utter despair for someone who had no faith at all is incomprehensible... how could you soldier on without anything to comfort you?
Prayers up for everyone touched by this....
Prayers for James and you all.
I’m sorry for your loss. However, prayers for your nephew would be misplaced at this point - he has passed from this life, and his soul is in the hands of God. Prayers now cannot change his eternal fate, and so we can only hope that he knew Christ as his Savior.
What we can do, however, is pray for the family - pray for peace and comfort, and pray that somehow even this tragedy can provide a witness to others, reminding them that none of us are guaranteed a tomorrow. Today is the day of salvation - we cannot wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow may be too late.
I will be praying for your family.
Perhaps to spare them from Hell on earth?
There is no more perilous time to be a living child than now. It will only get exponentially worse in the near future.
Logan’s Prayer Warriors...
God is so great, time itself is not important to him. God can undo the past to correct pain and suffering, and eventually does. I believe this completely. Hang in there.
When Adam and Eve was driven from the Garden, disease is made part of the human existence. Disease will take the innocent as well as the guilty. The price for the fruit of knowledge is disease, aging and struggle with hunger. Birth will be painful for women. Therefore do not rack your mind with why he was taken. Some of the answers to your questions is in the Old Testament. Not everything in the OT is nullified by the New Testament. Those who make it to Heaven assume a heavenly form or a form with no inequities (no signs of disease and age). Hope this provides some insight to what happen.
I am sorry for your loss and will pray for your nephew, for your sister, and for you. Words of sympathy and expressions of faith can only seem flimsy when weighed against the death of a child. I am confident though that your nephew is at peace and that, in the course of time, you and your sister will be with him again.
Your nephew knew plenty of love for more than ten years, which is more than many children receive from their parents or anybody else. Our Lord took the ultimate suffering upon Himself that we might be saved. Your nephew has been able to meet Love Himself, On who wants him saved more than any of us do.
“I don’t understand why God takes the innocent.”
It is a hard thing for us to understand, that we are all under the curse of death due to original sin, if not our own. Compared to most of the people you have known, the little feller may have been quite innocent. Yet he must have sinned, at least sometimes. We all do.
Focus rather on the goodness of God, in that He made a way for your nephew to be forgiven and be reconciled to God; and that if this little boy indeed trusted in Jesus for salvation, he is indeed saved. As are all those who confess their need for a Savior, and put their trust in Him.
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:3
As for where is he now? Assuming he looked in childish faith to Christ, he is where the thief on the cross is, certainly.
“Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”
And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23: 42-44
Prayers for your nephew, and for the comfort and consolation of you and your family.
Julie, he is heaven. God is not an intellectual discussion. He is your faith and your soul and in your heart.
Bless this little boy, his family and yours. Prayers are being said.
I hope that G-d grants you peace and allows the suffering of you and your family over your loss to diminish with the passage of time. Perhaps you can also contribute to charitable causes to honor his memory.
May God comfort you and your loved ones in knowing that James is now whole and very happy.
That’s what Easter is all about. Because Christ is risen, those who know Him as Savior will live eternally. Death has lost its sting.
I can't even imagine the pain that must come with the death of a young child. Yet I do have faith that the Lord God does have a purpose for everything. Our lives are just as short as your nephews in a relative sense. Family and children are a blessing from God but they're certainly not the be all and end all of our existence. God promises, promises, that because of the death of his son that all will have a chance to come to redemption and glory. God has that promise for you and for your nephew. Just because he's dead doesn't mean that God will not give him that chance.
Prayers and blessings to you and your family...
I am so very, very sorry. I will be praying for you and your entire family during this time. Go ahead. Talk to God and ask Him where He was during this time. Ask Him directly and tell Him you’re mad.
He is big enough to listen. I pray you can hear His answer in your pain.
Julie, first you have to understand that God didn’t do this to your nephew. We live in a world filled with sin and death and bad things happen to the innocent. God did allow it, however. And He allowed it for a purpose. We may never know what that purpose is, but I know that it exists.
We lost our son about a week before he would have been born. If the Lord had allowed him to stay with us, he’d be 10-years old now. That was both the worst day of my life and the most joyous. The worst part of it was looking into my wife’s eyes. She had this horrible, pleading look on her face, like she was begging me to make it stop; to make everything better. But, of course, I couldn’t. But that day I also heard God’s voice in my heart telling me “He’s with Me.” I was overjoyed to know that my son with with Jesus. You cannot hope for more for your child than to know that they will live forever and ever with God.
I don’t know what God’s plan for my son Forrest was or is, but I know there is a plan and my son is playing his part in that plan. You should know that God has a plan for James, for his parents, and for you; even if we cannot comprehend it.
Rejoice that he is without pain and in the presence of God, Who's will is perfect.
We, being mere humans can not know the mind of the author and finisher of our faith, but have the assurance of things not seen, His grace is sufficient for us who remain until that day.
Rejoice again that Christ has paid the price for everyone's sin.....
Your nephew, not to the age of accountability, rests in Christ.