As the rain forms when vapor rises, cools condense into droplets, it grows heavy enough to fall to earth, a process that is necessary for the earth to benefit from it. When the rain joins the wind, it becomes storms of great proportion, causing great damages. In that process, it scrubs the earth from tree’s dead limbs, the skies look clearly white and blue. It looks refreshed and the air clean. It was the rain that destroyed the earth many years ago, under God’s judgment on a wicked world. The earth’s topography was changed as the water surfaced from the deep with tremendous power. A rainbow was given as a sign from God. He no longer will destroy the earth with water, but with fire, in a form of final judgment. The earth will be made new and beautiful after all evil will be destroyed with it.
Sorrows are like vapor rising, forming droplets of tears, falling through the eyes when sorrows become heavy in our soul. These are tears we cannot hold; they serve to alleviate our emotions and clean our soul. When tears cannot be held, we experience a lighter weight of our troubles temporarily, for they are cleansers of the soul. Our God is well aware of our tears; He collects them in a bottle (Ps. 56:8). They are in God’s books. Our sorrows open up the tear channel and it brings comfort in times we need. The Bible comforts us by saying, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning” (Ps. 30:5); YAHSHUA said, “Blessed are those who weep, for they shall be comforted” (Matt. 5:4). There is hope in sorrows; it came with a purpose to better us into the image of our Lord YAHSHUA. The emotion quietly speaks volumes through tears, while it releases sorrows, griefs and all the many more emotions expressed through tears.
YAHSHUA wept at Lazarus’ death, an expression of compassion for the human spiritual and physical conditions, one that bore consequence when sin entered into the world. Consequence applied to all who has been born, with the exception of Himself, the life giver and the eternal God without beginning and without end. He was contemplating His own death in two weeks after Lazarus’ for men’s redemption. Perhaps, at that moment, He was realizing all that He was to go through, as we read in Isaiah’s prophecy years before He came. “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and pains… He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement for peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole” (Is. 53). I am sure that at His death, tears were let loose from someone’s soul. He was exposed to all the sufferings we suffer and humiliated beyond that which we suffer. A righteous man called Simeon, prophesized to Mary, (YAHSHUA’S mother) saying, “Behold, this Child is appointed and destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sigh that is spoken against, and a sword will pierce through you own soul – that the secret thoughts and purposes of many hearts be brought out and disclosed” (Luke 2:34-35). I am sure he was referring to the time of YAHSHUA’S crucifixion. Mothers have greater reservoir of tears than men, or more tears that cannot be held. It is seen often on their emotion’s reactions. The Word of God says, When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their distress and troubles; the Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin…Many evils confront the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all; He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken” (Ps. 34:17-20). The Lord keeps track of our sorrow- pain. Our God is a God of all comfort. Tears are a call to Him, when the soul can no longer hold them. Death, our worst enemy, causes sorrow for years to come. It gets stuck in the soul, causing tears to fall often. One needs to fight hard not to let this feeling control the soul to direct the future. It will be a matter of the will.