Has your
heart ever been broken? What broke it? Cruelty? Failure? Unfaithfulness? Loss?
Perhaps you’ve crept into the darkness to cry.
It’s good
to cry. “Tears are the only cure for weeping,” said Scottish preacher George
MacDonald. A little crying does one good.
Jesus
wept at His friend Lazarus’ grave (John 11:35),
and He weeps with us (v.33). His heart was broken as well. Our tears attract
our Lord’s lovingkindness and tender care. He knows our troubled, sleepless
nights. His heart aches for us when we mourn. He is the “God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our tribulation” (2 Cor. 1:3-4).
And He uses His people to comfort one another.
But tears
and our need for comfort come back all too frequently in this life. Present
comfort is not the final answer. There is a future day when there will be no
death, no sorrow, no crying, for all these things will “have passed away” (Rev. 21:4).
There in heaven God will wipe away every tear. We are so dear to our Father
that He will be the one who wipes the tears away from our eyes; He loves us so
deeply and personally.
God cares
and shares in our sorrow. (RBC)
