THE UPPER ROOM DEVOTIONAL 12TH NOVEMBER 2025, WEDNESDAY MESSAGE
Grace in Sorrow
Brittany Ison (Ohio, USA)
Today’s Reading
Exodus 16:11-19
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[The Lord] said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” – 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NRSVUE)
I had worked in ministry a while and had been a counselor, spending countless hours surrounded by others’ grief. But it was a whole new experience when my mother died and grief came home with me. Grief sat on my couch, pulled up a chair at my dinner table, lay in my bed, and followed me to the bathroom. I had to learn about grief by living with it.
Grief has been a demanding teacher. I have never felt such sorrow. There are depths of loss that no human comfort can reach. Grief is isolating in this way.
But here is the strangest thing I have experienced through all of this: I have never felt such hope! In those depths of sorrow, where no one else could go, I communed with Jesus Christ. Christ met me in ways that I had never known before. I discovered that his grace really is sufficient. Like manna in the desert, his grace is enough for today. It is enough for this moment, though I cannot store it up for future moments. I have to trust that the grace of Christ will meet me every day for as long as I wander through any desert. And so far, every time, grace has been with me — and it has been enough.
Thought for the Day
God is always with me in my grief.
Prayer Focus
Someone whose parent has died
Today’s Prayer
Dear God, thank you for walking with us through the depths of sorrow. We trust that you will go with us through every circumstance. Amen.
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