The Beatitudes – the Weeping
Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Luke 6:21b
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The Beatitudes – the Weeping
We cry for many reasons—joy, sadness, anger, fear. Tears have a way of cleansing us. They also expose our true feelings to others as they stream down our cheeks. Here these verses remind the Christian that weeping comes from sorrow over sin and its damage, and the crying now results from a life of repentance. Luke highlights this later when Jesus compares this generation to one that fails to weep as at a funeral over the consequences of sin and where a sinful woman’s tears of repentance wet Jesus’ feet. Often accompanying tears of joy is laughter. It comes from joy over the release from one’s sins, which comes through Jesus, whose entire ministry is one of release. But Jesus weeps over Jerusalem because she did not know the time of her visitation. She did not repent at the preaching of John so that she might be prepared for the visitation of Jesus Himself. We have before us two ways: one of life and one of death. We may imitate those who followed John the Baptist in repentance into the church founded on Christ, or we may follow the example of Jerusalem, whose final rejection of John and Jesus would soon result in her destruction in A.D. 70. May the tears which stream down our cheeks at the sight of Jesus be those of joy, as we are welcomed into His heavenly home.
Luke 6:21b
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The Beatitudes – the Weeping
We cry for many reasons—joy, sadness, anger, fear. Tears have a way of cleansing us. They also expose our true feelings to others as they stream down our cheeks. Here these verses remind the Christian that weeping comes from sorrow over sin and its damage, and the crying now results from a life of repentance. Luke highlights this later when Jesus compares this generation to one that fails to weep as at a funeral over the consequences of sin and where a sinful woman’s tears of repentance wet Jesus’ feet. Often accompanying tears of joy is laughter. It comes from joy over the release from one’s sins, which comes through Jesus, whose entire ministry is one of release. But Jesus weeps over Jerusalem because she did not know the time of her visitation. She did not repent at the preaching of John so that she might be prepared for the visitation of Jesus Himself. We have before us two ways: one of life and one of death. We may imitate those who followed John the Baptist in repentance into the church founded on Christ, or we may follow the example of Jerusalem, whose final rejection of John and Jesus would soon result in her destruction in A.D. 70. May the tears which stream down our cheeks at the sight of Jesus be those of joy, as we are welcomed into His heavenly home.
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