October 7, 2007

• Jesus and our sorrows...

  Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
  So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.
  ...
  Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."
  When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled, and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see."

  Jesus wept.

  So the Jews were saying, "See how He loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?"  - John 11:5-6, 32-38

   

  Lord, if only you had done such-and-such differently, this tragedy would never have occurred!

  And instead of telling us, "Yes, I am fully aware of that... I have bigger and better plans than you can comprehend", He simply comes and weeps alongside us.

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