Rather, I think He wept because of the compassion He felt for humanity as we weep over our own tragedies and losses. It is us that He loved so much that it brought Him to tears. So if you weep today, remember t
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his...
And Jesus wept with her. God cares deeply about our pain, our grief, the ones we have loved and lost. He loves them, too, and when we weep for them, He weeps with us. For in Jesus Christ, God has become man, and He knows what it is to love and to grieve. Yet even so, God...
Levi spent a little longer than normal amount of time in the birth canal, so his head had moulded to the shape of the birth canal a little more than normal, and he was delivered with what I was sure was some sort of deformity. He had a perfect cone head! Now, I’m looking around...
On the other occasion when Jesus wept (Luke 19:41) his tears were over the obstinate unbelief of the Jews, and the dire consequences thereof. He wanted to gather them to him like a mother gathers her chicks, "but you were not willing" (Luke 13:34b). In John's Gospel we often see...
The Holy Spirit works in different ways in the Church – it is through the power of the Holy Spirit that the Gifts about to be brought out in the Great Entrance are transformed in substance from bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. It is through the Holy Spirit that we ...
And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the household of Pharaoh heard it. And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father yet live?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near me, I...
They weren’t all women—most of them are women—but they fought hard for my kids on their battlefield. And that was really good for me because I had to deal with the flesh and blood of it. I had to deal with the logistics and the hurt hearts. But other people who could just ...
4 I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” ...
25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched hi...