Jesus Wept\ So It’s Alright To Cry

I know that there are many people that will tell you not to cry because you have to be strong for everybody else, but I’m here to tell my family that it’s alright to cry, it’s alright to shed some tears, and it’s alright to groan in your spirit because if Jesus cried and we are no where near in the same league as Christ, then it’s alright for you to cry.

In this message prayerfully, I can shine some light on why Jesus cried, and why it’s ok for us to cry.

?There are two verses in the Bible that deals with the ultimate aspects of life. One of these verses deals with the subject of life, and the other verse deals with the subject of death. Also, there are only two words phrases that are found within both of these verses that caught my attention within the scripture. These same two words phrases that should penetrate our hearts. These two familiar phrases are: “Remember Me”, and “Jesus wept.”??As the canopy of this text is lifted, Jesus was summoned to a friend’s house where he was confronted with the fact that his friend had died. His response to them was a simple, yet powerful response. His response was natural. His response was of a human emotion. The Bible says that “Jesus wept.”??This morning I must admit that this response puzzles me. I stood in wonder when I read that verse, also I must admit that I asked the question why. Why is it that the King of kings, and the Lord of lords breaking down and crying at a moment like this? Why is He who holds the power of life and death in His hands weeping? I wondered why is He’s crying, at the situation of death. “Jesus wept.”??Well as I examine the story of the death of Lazarus, it seems like to me one of the reasons that he wept was for the family.

Because when you read the story in chapter 11 beginning with verse 1 you will see that it read. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he stayed two days still in the same place where he was.

He said our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.

?33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. 35 Jesus wept.

You see Lazarus, the friend of Jesus, had two sisters and whenever Jesus came to town he would stay at their house, so Jesus knew this family, he was not just a friend but he was a close friend.

As a matter of fact one of the first person that they thought to call when Lazarus got sick was Jesus. And when Jesus came to meet with them he could see their pain and he could see their suffering and the effects of losing a love one and that it had filled their eyes with tears. If fact when he showed up on the scene, Martha said to Jesus, if you would have been here my brother would not had died.

I don’t know, but I believe that because of the sympathy and empathy which Jesus had for them that He was moved to share in the loss of one of their family members. And so the scripture tells us that: “Jesus wept.”

So my family I am here to tell you that we also feel the effect of a lost of one of our family member, and being Christ like that why we see all of them weeping with us.

You see, I believe that they had some memories of Lazarus, that they just couldn’t shake, I believe that they looked back in retrospect and remember the days of old, the days that they laughed together, cried together, suffered together, or even fought together just as we did with our brother Deacon Vincent Spies.