You cannot talk to your loved one who has died. There is a great gulf between this world and the next. You also have a Savior with Whom you can talk. You have a Savior who knows what it is to weep. When your soul is overwhelmed with sorrow, your Savior has been there. In the Garden of Gethsemane, our Lord said, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow” (Matthew 26:38 NIV). Our Lord was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3). In one of them the Messiah says, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to… bind up the brokenhearted… to comfort all who mourn… that they may be called oaks of righteousness” (Isaiah 61:1-3), so that you may be able to stand and not be destroyed in your grief. There are many wonderful statements in the Bible of why Jesus Christ came into the world. They are part of why He sent His Son into the world. The tears of God’s children are precious to Him. There is a beautiful verse in the book of Psalms that speaks of God gathering all our tears in a bottle:Įvery tear you have ever shed is completely known to your heavenly Father. God is always intimately involved in the grief of His people. He told Martha, “Your brother will rise again” (11:23) but He did not say to Martha, “Don’t grieve.” He is the Resurrection and the Life, but He weeps with Martha and Mary over their loss. Why did Jesus weep if He knew that in five minutes He would raise Lazarus from the dead? And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
These two women were grieving the death of their dearly loved brother. Martha came out to meet Him, and later her sister Mary. When Lazarus died, Jesus went to Bethany.
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