Tears are a gift. Tears can express joy and happiness. They can express sadness and pain. Sometimes we are afraid to cry, for fear we cannot stop. Tears can bring us to a place of release. They may be with us when on the verge of despair. They are a part of life in this world as we know it. Someday all sorrow-filled tears will be dried, because the reasons for them (death, sickness and pain, etc.), will be gone in the new creation. The God-man wept at the tomb of His friend (John 11:35). He weeps at the wreck, the diagnosis, the sick bed, and at the tomb of our friends. Jesus wept, so you need not doubt that tears are a part of Christlikeness.
From “The Master’s Table”, by H. Lamar Smith
