Genesis TwentyThree - Sarah's Death & Abraham's Sadness

He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying,
“If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me
that I may bury my dead there.” Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 
“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that 
between me and you? So bury your dead.” Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham 
weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth,
four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

Genesis 23:13-16

I cannot imagine how painful it would have been for Abraham and Isaac to have gone through the death of their beloved. Even with the hope of the Savior to come, pain is still painful and loss is still heartbreaking. I don't know Ephron's true intentions of speaking the price of the land- whether it be that he finally caved in mentioning it to Abraham because he was tired of addressing that it was okay not to pay, or because Ephron genuinely thought that 400 shekels of silver was considered as chump change.. but what I can see that Abraham wanted to honor Sarah as his wife up until the end. In his mourning, in his desire to bury her on foreign soil and to buy that piece of land saying yes, this burial site is mine, and those who are buried in it are mine and will be mine. It shows he genuinely loved Sarah as his own and he wanted to own up to that up until the very end. It gives me chills just thinking about how incredibly loving he must have been through all those years with her. Through his gratitude towards God's grace of granting him such a woman Abraham loved Sarah wholeheartedly. He loved her because Abraham was first loved by the Lord. The love that transcends through death and eternal life, that is the type of legacy Abraham showed for the Christ that was to come.. How I desire to be graced by such a glimpse of that type of grand affection from the Lord. I await for my Beloved, He fights my battles for me(Exodus 14:14) and He will return with arms full of lilies (Song of Solomon 6:2-3) and so I await for Him (Isaiah 40:3, Psalm 27:14)