Pastor's Message Archives
March 29, 2009
Pastor’s Message: Weeping while healing on the March to the Cross
A.There seems to be a correlation between Healing and tears.
1.For those unable to cry does not mean healing does not take place but can mean it is hard to
release emotion in a healthy manner.
2. Did Jesus cry? Yes for you and I…
(RBC, Daily Bread) States on “Healing” January 12, 2008; God’s Tears
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READ: John 11:28-37
Jesus wept. —John 11:35
In C. S. Lewis’ story The Magician’s Nephew, Digory recalled his terminally ill mother and how his hopes were
all dying away. With a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes, he blurted out to Aslan, the great lion who
represents Christ, “Please, please—won’t you—can’t you give me something that will cure Mother?”
Then, in his despair, Digory looked up at Aslan’s face. “Great shining tears stood in the Lion’s eyes. They were
such big, bright tears compared with Digory’s own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier
about his Mother than he was himself. ‘My son, my son,’ said Aslan. ‘I know. Grief is great.Only you and I in this
land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.’”
I think of Jesus’ tears at Lazarus’ grave (John 11:35). I believe He wept for Lazarus as well as for Mary and
Martha and their grief. Later, Jesus wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-44). And He knows and shares our grief
today. But as He promised, we will see Him again in the place He’s preparing for us (John 14:3). In heaven, our
grief will end. “God will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor
crying” (Rev. 21:4).
Until then, know that God weeps with you. — David H. Roper
He knows our burdens and our crosses,
Those things that hurt, our trials and losses,
He cares for every soul that cries,
God wipes the tears from weeping eyes. —Brandt
If you doubt that Jesus cares, remember His tears.
The culture of world sometimes still holds on to tears as revealing weakness.
B.The Lamentations of Tears
Matthew 23: 37 states: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are
sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and you would not!
1.The sadness and tears of rejection.
2.Yet Christ’s compassion was still in place.
3.Healing can only take place in Jerusalem when Jesus is no longer rejected.
C.Tears of Joy
1.Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in
your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou
the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth
not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
The tears of joy come when we know we are the Lord’s children and he is ours.