Dear Ladies,
Tears can
signal the onset of strong emotions of sorrow or
elation. Tears are usually a
response to
a happy event, sadness, pain or an allergic reaction.
Often tears are a response when we feel
powerless having exalted all the efforts within our resources.
You are on a
job and a supervisor treats you with no
respect, your actions are controlled by the demands of someone you feel
is
unfair. Tears may come in the
restroom,
your cubicle or where ever your secret closet is.
When you feel you want to say something but
can’t, tears can come.
Tears come
when someone close to your heart has hurt you
deep within. Unconsciously, you
still care. Tears reflect your
inner
beings. You verbalize, “I can’t
tolerate
my situation any more”. Your mouth
says
one thing and your heart feels another.
Tears say it all.
In the Bible
David wept over the death of Absalom
accompanied with the tears were thoughts of wrong deeds he had done.
Mary cried as she watched her son and Savior
on the cross. There was sadness;
however, there was the knowledge of prophecy about His resurrection.
Jeremiah was called the Weeping Prophet,
authoring the book of Jeremiah and the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Jeremiah
wept for the pride of Judah. Israel
cried to God in affliction.
Tears flow as
we realize God has kept His promises to us
despite our disobedience and lack of trust in Him.
Tears are one of those necessary things in
life. Sometimes we can control our
tears
and then there are times when they flow like an uncontrollable river.
Tears just happen.
Imagine
serving a God who knows our heart, numbers our tears
and stores them up. Psalm 56:8
tells us
that, "God knows our troubles and our wanderings, stores all our tears
in a
bottle, has counted each one of them, and they are recorded in the
Book." Imagine our God
who takes our tears during
sorry and turns them into tears of joy and dancing.
Revelation 21:4 says, “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."
Imagine the creator of tears knowing when
we would shed tears, why we shed tears and exactly how many tears we
would
shed. We are predestined.
If it seems
you have been shedding more tears than you need
to shed. Trust that you serve a God
who
cares about every one of your tears. He
has the key to transitioning them from tears of sadness and pain to
tears of
joy. Every tear counts.
In His
Sovereignty,
TJAG
