Sometimes the Father takes the people you love the most.
In a conversation many years ago I was talking to a person who's very close family member was taken from them and the individual said something I have heard many other times; I don't understand why God took my sister, or mother, or dad, or wife, or grandmother, ect. ect.?,
Of course there are many reasons why God would do this and I have enumerated on some of those but never the less I was still uncomfortable that the full explanation that God is in control and His Sovereignty is absolute. In other words it does not matter what you and I think or want he is going to do what he has planned regardless. God Loves us and that there is more to it than just that is a fact. That he graces us with the ability to question his plan is extraordinary grace.
Never the less the least of the answer may also be the most important to us.
God Loves us and is a Jealous God. Though he loves everyone He wants our attention. He has things to teach us and wonders to show us and a great desire that we should be full of love, his love...Him..
God did not take any one out from your lives because he hated us but he Loves us. His Love for us is so great that He would hang himself on the cross and die for us.
It is selfish to think that if someone dies in this age of Jesus that God did not love them. In fact the works in that persons life and the works that He had assigned to that person on earth were finished and God in his awesome desire for a closer relationship with them required them to be with Him in Paradise.
For sons of God who's eternity is assured by Jesus; death no longer holds sway over them, and they are free to do the good things that they wish they could do without fear of the recriminations. The fear that this world would punish you and even kill you for being nice, or giving, or loving, or for telling them there is a guaranteed door and it is so easy to access.
The words are; Jesus save me, forgive me of my sins. Jesus is that door.
I don't know too much about other faiths or religions except that in the other religions one little mistake is all it takes for a man to not get in the door. In essence they are right. Where they are wrong is when they think that by works or good behavior can you save yourself. One itty bitty sin is all it takes to be kept out of forever paradise in their belief system. I don't know of one single person who was or is perfect nor have I met the perfect man or woman.
I wonder how many realize that God knew this when He began creation. That because of this God had to make a plan that plainly forgave men for not being able to be perfect, there would simply be no way for a man to enter into the Gates of Heaven, and Heaven would not have one single soul of a man.
That God gave unto the devil the power to cause all but one to sin, and I assure you that in this the devil has succeeded against all of mankind, 'but one'. That spirit of untruth reigns supreme in this one thing and one thing only, 'but for one'. He has caused everyone ever born to sin, 'but for one'. Jesus 'the only' begotten Son of God never sinned.
Only by the Fathers outright forgiveness is there any hope. The separating factor in following Jesus from any other belief is this one idiom. The realization that Jesus was God come to earth. Not to conquer by might but to conquer by His unswerving Love. And to prove his dedication to you by putting Himself to death. Yet to prove that he was God to raise himself up from death.
To die was the end before Emanuel, but today if you truly love your family then tell them this message: that death need not be the end for you. God died and raised himself up so that you could live in Paradise forever. Without acknowledging this you cannot be saved because by no word or work or faith of men can you be saved. You will be lost. No goodness can be had nor done that would make any difference in the end. Not any one's good works can atone. No penance can be made and no thing hoped for nor even the ongoing good intentions of your heart can save. Just Jesus. Jesus is the only absolution you need. Jesus is the only way.
The Beloved person that God took from you by death was not for evil but for good. The sorrow you feel is not bad. My servitude to God is this. I want you to know when someone dies; who gave there life to 'Jesus', did not die forever. They just aren't going to live here on earth anymore.
You can thank God for this because if you are saved as well you will see them again in the home that Jesus has gone on ahead of us all to build. You will join them there and for the first time in your existence know what true and lasting Joy really is.
Life on earth is hard for most and I have come to the conclusion that it was never meant to be easy. I think that If it were easy we would not look for answers to our heart ache and pain. If it were easy we would not look beyond ourselves and we would not look for God. If we never looked for God then we would not have been meant to live forever with Him.
But life is hard, we do look for answers, and we are looking beyond ourselves, and we are looking for God.....and we are meant to live forever. And by God By Jesus, we can live forever in paradise.
In summary
The person who was taken belonged to God and to claim them as yours in saying that I lost my beloved is folly. God loves you and wants you to spend more time with him not the one He took. He took them because He wants them with Him. In this you can look to look to God. You may have been looking to that person as a mentor and God may actually have been the one mentoring you through that person. Now it is time to look directly to God. Maybe that person could not help you grow any more than you have grown and God did not intend for it to be so.
God will finish His works in you directly.