Joni And Friends 24 May 2022 Devotional | Tears
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MAY 24, 2022 JONI AND FRIENDS DEVOTIONAL FOR WEDNESDAY
TODAY’S TOPIC: TEARS
Many years ago, when I was a teenager in the hospital, I noticed something very peculiar. Even though there was so much pain, so much disappointment in the lives of kids my age who were rehabilitating from accidents and injuries—even though you knew that were hurting—no one cried.
Sometimes I would lie awake in the middle of the night in my hospital room. I was so near tears, but I fought them back. For one thing, there was no one around to blow my nose or wipe my eyes. But I was also afraid. Afraid I would wake up my roommates and they would hear me. Maybe, just maybe, they would make fun of me the next day at physical therapy. So I kept my tears to myself.
That reminds me of something Chuck Colson once told me. “Men and women in prison don’t cry,” he said. “It’s a sign of weakness, and weakness can be dangerous in prison.”
Thankfully, things changed once I got out of that hospital and got my act together with the Lord. Getting closer to Jesus taught me weakness was something to boast in, something to delight in. Even the apostle Paul, who told us he gloried in his weakness, wrote to the Corinthian church with “much anguish of heart and many tears.”
Then I learned about David—a real man’s man, a warrior, and a king. He cried, too. The pages of the psalms are salted with this man’s tears. In Hebrews I read of Jesus offering prayers and petitions “with loud cries and tears.”
Big, burly Peter demonstrated that tears are only natural when one feels remorse or regret—like the time he heard the rooster crow a second time, recognized his sin, and wept bitterly.
Learning about these people in Scripture gave me the courage and confidence to cry! No longer were tears an embarrassment, a mark of weakness or shame.
What do your tears mean to you? The Bible tells us that “those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy,” (Psalm 126:5). God gives you a reason to hope, even though you find it tough to hold back the tears. Weeping won’t last forever. But out of your grief, love, or repentance, God brings a peace that does last forever.
Revelation 7:17 puts it this way: “For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
It’s ironic. In heaven, where I will be able once again to wipe my own tears, I won’t have to.
Wayside Interlude
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.
Psalm 39:12, ESV
Happy are those who are strong in the Lord, who want above all else to follow your steps. When they walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a place of springs where pools of blessing and refreshment collect after rains!
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