Are you Grieving?

Jesus wept.  John 11:35

The shortest sentence in the bible.  And yet it carries SO much emotion.  In this chapter we find Jesus stopped and told that his friend had died.  Now this is Jesus we are talking about, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!  He knew God, He knew He would too go to Lazarus and raise him from the dead.  And yet, still, Jesus wept.  He felt grief, pain. 

Say it with me, "Jesus wept."

Ouch.  Our precious Jesus even knowing the Truth wept.  I don't think it had anything to do with Jesus not believing the Truth.  I think it had to do with the pain of that person being lost in that moment.  I know when Joe died I felt like my hearts light went around the world searching for his soul, but my spirit couldn't detect him because he was gone.  That was the moment that the grief hit me the hardest.  Could that be what Jesus felt as well?  That moment in which you are not reasoning the Truth, just feeling that loss? 

Then when you are grieving, don't you think the best person to go to with that pain, is Jesus!?  He is the one who knows the very Truth that we hold onto.  So then, since He was on this earth, felt that pain and wept.  I think He may understand that terrible pain that comes when a loved one dies. 

Give your heart and soul and pains to Jesus. 

This song always comforts me when I am missing Joe, and it also reminds me to go rest in Jesus for a while...

Valley Song
By: Jars of Clay

You have led me to the sadness
I have carried this pain
On a back bruised, nearly broken
I'm crying out to you

I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy

When death like a gypsy
Comes to steal what I love
I will still look to the heavens
I will still seek your face

But I fear you aren't listening
Because there are no words
Just the stillness and the hunger
For a faith that assures

Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia

While we wait for rescue
With our eyes tightly shut
Face to the ground using our hands
To cover the fatal cut

And though the pain is an ocean
Tossing us around, around, around
You have calmed greater waters
Higher mountains have come down

Yeah

Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia

Alleluia, alleluia alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia alleluia, alleluia

Oh, Lord sing of Your mercy,
Mercy
Your mercy