I come before you today with a heavy and sorrowing heart. I thank You for being sovereign and having a plan that is greater than we could ever imagine. But, Lord, sometimes I just don't understand when these plans include the dying of young children. Your Word says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."(Isaiah 55:8-9) So, Lord, I choose to trust You and Your plans, today, even in the midst of sorrow and in my own inability to understand the ways You choose.
Father, we've prayed for Eli Horn for so many weeks and months and even years. And today You chose to take him Home to You. I never met Eli but he was such a strong little boy, enduring such pain and trial and physical suffering during his short life...and so many smiles in the midst. Thank You that he is no longer suffering, that he is now pain free. Thank You for loving him so much and for delighting to bring him Home to You to rest. Thank You for sending your Beloved Son to die on the cross for Eli Horn.
But, Father, those who love him are left behind with aching hearts and aching arms. Care for his parents and brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and loved ones, Father. Give them Your Spirit of comfort in this loss of their son, grandson, nephew, cousin, friend. I trust You, Father, to care for them and guide them through this immense sorrow.
Words can not express but I thank You that there is One who intercedes for us when words are just not adequate. And, Father, this is one of those times.
I commit the Horn family into Your Loving, sovereign and comforting arms today and for all the days before us.
In Your Son's Name I pray these things,
Amen.
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