Tears

I've been working on another post recently, but I got the idea for this post today and I just had to put it up tonight. Now the Bible does not have much to say about tears, but what it does have to say is important and worth paying attention to. First we need to ask a couple questions and take a look at ourselves.

Why do you think God gave us the ability to cry? The answer is the question, "Why do we cry?" We cry when we are feeling one of two things. The first is when we feel great pain, physical or emotional. The second is when we feel overwhelming joy. In other words, God gave us the ability to cry when we have one of two conditions, which are complete opposites. But what few realize is that even though they are completely different, in Christianity, they are both experienced at the same time throughout one's journey with Jesus Christ. We now look at James 4:9-10 and Psalm 126:5. They say,

Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

Two verses with a whole lot of meaning behind them. We are told to grieve, mourn, and wail and cry out to God because we have sinned and have brought death upon ourselves. We must mourn for our souls that we have murdered. We have all caused ourselves a great pain through our sin. If you are a Christian, then you have felt the pain of your sins. And even before we come to Jesus and have Him show us our sins, we feel them as we commit them. And when we do go to Jesus for forgiveness and we look at all of the sins of our lives, it brings a pain like no other. I know of no person to not cry when they come to Christ for forgiveness for the first time. That pain grows as we think of all the sins adding up until when we finish the list it's overwhelmingly painful to think of them. And at the very moment it reaches the peak, Jesus takes it all away. He removes the burden, and we breathe, for the first time, without a heavy burden we can't explain weighing on us. After all our mourning and crying out for our souls that we have sentenced to death with our sins, Jesus takes away the sin and the pain it caused. When that happens, the tears of pain we had before stop, and tears of Joy begin pouring out. They come out in such a manner that they feel like they completely wash away any trace of the tears of pain. Because all traces of pain leave.
This is why God gave us the ability to cry when we are in the most pain, and when we are experiencing overwhelming Joy. Because, these are what we feel when we experience Jesus for the first time.

I got the idea for this post because I felt angry all day until this afternoon. While I was alone in my home, I was listening to music and a song came on that I started singing with. As I sang the words, I suddenly felt tears streaming down my face. And as I thought more and more about Jesus, the tears kept coming out more and more. They felt freeing, peaceful, loving, joyous. It made me look at my entire life and relationship with Jesus, and why I chose to follow Him. It reminded me of how close God is to me, and who He is. Right now I wish I could shed tears like that everyday. However, even if I can't, it does not mean I can not remember this feeling and this lesson. I will for a long time. That Jesus paid for me, and that He is always with me.

I'm putting up the song I was listening to when I began crying. Listen to the words. And remember what you are forgiven for. What it was like that first time you really experienced Jesus' forgiveness. Remember what it was like to shed tears of Joy because of what Jesus did for you. Now I leave with a question. When was the last time you felt so moved by Jesus Christ that you cried?

Tears

God can inspire so much emotion.
My soul can't help but be put into motion.
Knowing that He gets rid of my fears,
I shed a great number of tears.
I shed these tears because of great a Joy,
That my God chooses to Love and not to destroy.
I cry because while in pain, He gives me Hope.
As if I were in a hole and He threw down a rope.
I do not cry because of pains and fears.
God's Love and Joy are the reasons for my tears.

Thank You For Reading
Long Live Jesus Christ
Amen