Cryyyy-yyy-yyy--ing..... over You....

Okay, here we are folks. Let's have a chat. More of a discussion really... Okay, let's be honest, it's a monologue, but I want to share. Maybe it'll be poignant enough to matter to someone, maybe it won't, but nonetheless, I feel it noteworthy, so away I go.

Crying. Why do we do it? Why do we need to do it? Is it really a natural thing? Should we feel guilty if we have to cry? Hmmm.. well let's take a look shall we? Who built us? C'mon people, if you are reading this you are one of my peeps and the answer is not up for discussion. God built us in HIS image. Whose image?? C'mon I can't hear you! Yes, HIS. Praise God, Hallelujah! We are engineered by whom?? HIM. The Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all things seen and unseen. He is Yahweh! So we question the necessity or validity of crying? Phooey...The world says you're weak. Well, guess what? Newsflash people, WE ARE!! And I'm glad we are, and that in that weakness we can allow God to be the magnificent God that He is! HIS grace is sufficient for me.

God knows we cry, He knows we are going to, He knows we always will. We are promised that the tears will one day end, though...so don't be ashamed of the tears, especially when the God that loves you and created you knows they are there. He not once judges you for your tears..

Revelation 21:4> He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.

Check that again. Like a gentle loving father, He knows, and He will wipe every tear from their eyes. He hurts for us, if He didn't, He wouldn't make the promise that our tears would fade.

Does God think us silly for crying??

Hebrews 5:7>In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

Read that again, people. He was heard because of his piety. He wasn't heard because he was so prideful and strong and able to hold it all in.....He was heard!!! His crying, his sadness was heard!!!

Still not convinced?? David... Yes, David. God loved David, and David was a great King! David penned many of the psalms in the bible. If God didn't mean for us to cry, and to let out what was inside, He wouldn't have allowed those psalms to be a part of His great work, but He says His word is perfect and complete. David is a crier...

Psalm 69:3>I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting for my God

Wait there's more... that's just crying, let's take a look at another word. Weep. What does weep mean>? Ummm.. I think it has something to do with crying... yep, pretty sure that's it. What does the Bible say about weeping? Well, there are over 96 scriptures in the Bible that refer to weeping... Shall I begin? Are you still with me?

We weep for joy, with love, excitement, gladness, over seeing someone we've been missing, many happy occassions are riddled with weeping..

Genesis 43:30>
Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

Okay so that says he went to a private place, hang on folks...

Genesis 45:14>Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.

Embraced him weeping, he didn't hold back, he wasn't prideful, he wanted his brother to know exactly how happy he was with their reunion.

Genesis 50:1>Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him.

Moving on.

We weep at the prospect of an ill befalling a people, a tragedy being struck upon those we care about, or even just share a love of humanity for....

Esther 8:3> Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

She was not prideful, but expressed the very pit of her emotion to show the depth of how she felt about the situation. Had she simply gently discussed this, Her Husband may have thought it all frivolity and never known her heart... Being weak makes us strong..

We weep at what lies ahead, but we are promised release, peace, grace, and mercy...

Psalm 126:6 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.

We weep over the sadness and regret of the past. Who we were, what we've done, and over the prospect of penance, of forgiveness, of release...

Luke 7:38
and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

Did Jesus scorn her for this??...He loved her, and saved her...He did not let the tears that fell be worthless, they were pearls...full of regret, full of hope, full of repentance..

John 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Jesus cares for us, our hearts, our troubles, He loves us. Do we not hurt when our children cry?? Do we not hurt when our children stumble? Do we not hurt when those we love hurt?? Then how much more does our Heavenly Father hurt for us in our pain and anguish? Should we be ashamed to cry out??? NO!... NO NO NO. How does our Father know to embrace us and hold us if we do not cry out to Him?!

We weep when we feel we have no more strength... Are we weak? Compared to what? Compared to whom?? David and His warriors wept, before battle, after battle, to release everything they were about to go through, and everything they had BEEN through. Are you telling me your heart is stronger than that of a Warrior??

1 Samuel 30:4 So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep

No more strength left to weep. And they did this together. Do you think they were ashamed? They were in fellowship, and they were in this together.

We weep when things are just too much too handle... When we are overwhelmed....when we just can't take anymore, we need to let it out. Who is greater than us? God...Jesus... and in His mortal form, He too cried out, He wept...
Jesus...

John 11:35 Jesus wept

Jesus, lover of my soul... He WEPT!! That hurts me to my core! In it's simplicity, it says so much, so who are we to think that we are stronger?? Who are we to think that weeping is a sign of weakness when our very own Lord and Savior, God's perfection also wept? I don't know about you, but I am so far off the mark that it's crazy, so to think that I would be able to handle life/emotion better than the one who made me is just crazy people!!


Let those tears go!!!! Cry out for what's been lost!!! Let it go!! Cry out for what's been hurt!!! Weep for innocence lost!!! Weep for mistakes made!! Weep for harm you may have caused others!!! Weep for feeling like you've failed when you have not, Child of God!! Let it out, let it go!!!! Cry out for those you miss!! Let it go!! Let Go, and Let God!!!! Let Him do His perfect work in you, let that peace overcome you in waves so strong and amazing , that the healing starts right here and right now!!! Let those chills go up your spine, let your arms rise up into the air!!! Cry!!! For He is with you, He will heal you, He will love you!!! Open your hands up to Him, close your eyes and raise your face up to Him!! Cry, Weep, Let go...Invite Him in to fix everything you feel is so very wrong, only then....only then will peace reside...only then will true love reside, for you have taken out the trash....you have begun your spring cleaning, because if your cup runneth over....you're not allowing any room for anything good to move into it's place until you let it out...just do it... Whose going to think less of you?? Let them!! The one that matters isn't going to think less of you, and is just waiting for you to open yourself, invite Him in, and let the new begin...let the new begin...

Just love Him, and let Him be the loving Father He wants to be, holding your face in His hands, and wiping those tears away....and bringing the smile slowly back to your face as He holds you...and bringing the peace and joy into your heart that will take the place of those tears...so make room...make room for something better....

Do you feel weak??

Isaiah 40:29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

I don't know about you, but I want to feel that...Yes Lord, I am weak...be strong through me, let Your grace shine through me, show the world that it is YOU, not me, who walks my steps...
I leave you with this last thought, and know that I love every one of you, so very much, and pray for the best as you walk your walk alongside mine...

2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

So friends and loved ones... let it go... I am not saying that we should cry forever, or all the time, that would not be healthy at all. The point is that you CAN, that you are ALLOWED, that it is OKAY. We should get past the pain and let it go to Him to the point where we've grown enough in our relationship with Christ to lean on the everlasting arms, and hope in Him. I want to bask in His GLORY and LOVE and JOY!!!! I want to fill my heart with His peace and abide with Him!!! But that being said, you have to let the pain go, and pain will still come, hurt will still linger in the future, sadness may cross our paths again someday, so just know, it's okay, the Joy comes in the morning...

There was no special battle here, so the count remains as it did when we last were together. Thanks so much for walking with me just a little while...