Jesus Wept

The shortest verse in the Bible. Two words. And yet it may be the most comforting sentence in all of Scripture.

Jesus wept.

He wept at the tomb of Lazarus. He wept even though He knew — He already knew — that He was about to raise Lazarus from the dead. He wept even though the resurrection was moments away. He did not skip the grief because He could see the other side of it. He stood in the grief, with the grieving, and He wept.

This tells us something essential about the heart of God. He does not observe our pain from a clinical distance. He does not stand outside our sorrow with a list of theological explanations. When Mary fell at His feet weeping, the Gospel says He was 'groaning in the spirit.' The word in the Greek is one of deep, visceral anguish. He was moved in the marrow of who He is.

You are not worshipping a God who is unmoved by your pain. You are not praying to a God who sits in perfect, untouched light while you grieve below. You are praying to the One who stood at a grave and wept — who knows what it is to feel the weight of loss in a human body, to feel tears on a human face.

When you cry, He does not turn away. He does not hand you a verse and walk on. He is the God who weeps with those who weep. He wept then, and He is not indifferent to your tears now.

Bring your tears to Him today. They are not an embarrassment. They are a language He understands perfectly.