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.
Remember, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matt. 5:4).
God cares and shares in our sorrow. (RBC)
