Episode 403 - Show Notes
- God has created us with emotions. You have emotions of joy which include happiness, contentment, peace, love, relief, and satisfaction. You also experience emotions of sadness, which may include feelings of disappointment, grief, heartbreak, loneliness, and misery. It’s perfectly normal to feel and share our emotions.
- Throughout scripture we see people expressing the emotion of sadness through their tears. There are biblical examples of tears of grief, tears of repentance, tears of joy, tears of sympathy, tears disappointment and neglect, and tears of yearning and desire.
- John chapter 11 tells us that even Jesus wept when he saw the tomb of his friend Lazarus, who had recently died.
- Hebrews 4:15 tells us that God “sympathizes with our weaknesses.” Some translations say he is “touched with the feelings of our infirmities.”
- The ancient Greeks believed that one of the primary attributes of God was his inability to feel anything at all. Jesus isn’t like that. He knows and He feels what we go through. The ancient Greek word translated sympathize literally means “to suffer along with.”
- What makes the difference is that Jesus added humanity to His deity, and lived among us. When you have been there, it makes all the difference.
- While we all have emotions and we all have tears of sorrow in this life, there is coming a day, as Revelation 21 says, when “God wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
- We will be in God’s presence forever. And because we will be with God, no harm or evil can ever touch us again. We will enter into a joy we have never experienced and cannot begin to imagine. There will be no tears. No sorrow. No pain. No regret. No remorse. Bitterness is gone forever, failure left far behind, suffering is redeemed and rewarded.
- On that incredible day, God will wipe away our sadness, our sorrow, our grief, our mourning, and our heartache. He will replace it with gladness, celebration, delight, joy, and eternal contentment.
Revelation 21:1-4 - "Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
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