Our days are His ...

    

What do tears have to do with joy? During moments of intense stirrings in our heart we may feel joy intermingled with tears as we become overwhelmed with elation.  Holding a newborn child, hearing expressions of love from another that overflow with feeling and even seeing something with our eyes can become overpowering to our senses ... any of these and many others can bring forth both tears and joy at the same moment.

      At other times, tears flow from our deepest anguish when words falter and fail. They can seem to come from an endless source of heartbreak as they bathe our face as grief and sorrow pour forth. These tears ache with questions and brokenness in endless waiting and joy cannot be seen or much less found. At times our tears come as think of our gracious and loving God and remember His grace as we travel through difficulty or fall in repentance.

     Jesus walks with us throughout all of our days upon the earth. He celebrates with us in those joyous times and weeps with us in our deepest anguishes. We also know that we will join Him in eternity and for certain, a day is coming when "death is swallowed up forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces" (Isaiah 25:8).  What is too deep for us to really comprehend when our tears are wiped away and our joy is fulfilled in the presence of our Lord forever. srm

And it will be said in that day:

“Behold, this is our God;

We have waited for Him, and He will save us.

This is the Lord;

We have waited for Him;

We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

Isaiah 25:9

"Let us learn to think of tears as liquid prayers; and of weeping as a constant dropping of importunate intercession which will wear its way right surely into the very heart of mercy, despite the stony difficulties which obstruct the way." Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)