![]() Our leader decided we were going to have a pizza party. But when I’m not, He is still there, willing to simply hold me close and weep for my pain.When I was around 10 years old I was in an Awana program. In the ebbs and flows of grief, I may be there several times in a day. In spite of what I may have thought in the past, perhaps He’s not as interested in me immediately moving on from pain to shout my victory. The Lord wants you to know that not only does He see the beginning from the end and know that this is not the end of your story, He is willing to be with you, right up close and oh-so personal in the moment. Maybe you have been there, or are there, or will be there shortly. ![]() He simply flowed with compassion as He stepped into time and held me close. He didn’t weep in despair that all our best plans were coming to naught. Several times recently the Hubs has done much the same. I saw the Lord pull me onto His lap and as He held me, He wept with me. And as I was recently pressing in in prayer and began to feel the Lord’s Presence, I had an image flash to my mind. Tears have flowed in the “wailing and sobbing” form. Our family has been thrust into crisis of late. He has sat down with me and wept with me. He sees all, knows all and reassures me from His divine, eternal perspective.īut lately, I’ve seen Jesus do something for me in a new way: Instead of merely being outside time, He has entered time. He knows the end from the beginning He reassures me that all things will work for my good He calls things that are not as though they were. So often, I have no problem seeing Jesus outside time. Jesus knew this was not an end, that after their ears stopped ringing from the shock of a dead man breathing and stumbling back into the light, their voices would ring with a rejoicing that would wake the spiritually dead for miles around.īut just now, on the precipice of life, Jesus enters into the moment of their pain and Jesus weeps. When Jesus wept, the Greek word “dakruo” is used and refers to silent crying, the shedding of tears. It’s the kind of crying that comes from deep inner pain, from hopelessness, from grief. In verse 33, we read of Mary’s weeping, where the Greek word “klaio” is used. He feels deeply and is not afraid to feel, to hurt, to empathize, to be seen hurting, to have it recorded for you and me to ponder. The beauty of the compassion of Jesus is in full view, in unbrushed-aside tears. It is the shortest verse in the Bible, yet, in my view, one of the most powerful and I love how it stands alone – that two-word verse – almost forcing the reader to pause over it in a “Selah” moment. I remember someone hinting to me as a child that if I was required to pick a verse of Scripture to memorize, to pick, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). It is true that in the account of Jesus coming to Mary and Martha, so recently bereaved of their brother, He wept. ![]() To me the answer seemed obvious: compassion.īut lately I’ve been learning the answer at a much more personal and, dare I say, tangible level. “Why did Jesus weep at Lazarus’ tomb if He knew He was about to raise him from the dead?” It’s a question I’ve been asked on more than one occasion.
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