So Many Tears

4,700 Tears to Fill a Bottle

John 11:35 “Jesus wept.”

What happens when your theology moves from theoretical to practical? Xi Flying a plane

How do you prevent from what seems illogical from becoming heretical ?

When it does not feel like he is helping. God has helped.

What happens when you lose power and have to dip into your emergency ration and you need to check the expiration date, with your cell phone light when you only have 1% left?

“Ah, I suffered through the years, and shed so many tears”

Weeping may endure for a night, what happen when the nights are like the ones in in Alaska?

You can question God

Habakkuk 1:2 “O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?”

Psalm 22:1 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?”

Matthew 27:46 “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?””

You can not challenge God. you can not cross examine or accuse God.

God is not obligated to explain Himself

Job 38:1–3 “Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.”

Habakkuk 1:5 ““Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.”

John 11:14–16 “Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.””

John 11:25 “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,”

Job 40:1–2 “And the Lord said to Job: “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.””

God is compassionate

Romans 12:15 “Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.”

I have been guilty of not giving people time and space to grieve.

Psalm 56:8 “You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?”

Darwin thought that tears had not purpose, but he was wrong . The help to regulate homeostasis, allow you to regulate your self in a ever changing world

Martha and Mary, Martha natural hair.. Both responded to Jesus’ voice.

John 11:33–37 “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. And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?””

Well pleased, I only do what I see my Father doing. I am the resurrection

God is yet God

Habakkuk 1:5 ““Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.”

Job 42:5–6 “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.””

Closing

Job 3:17–19 “There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.”

“Now I'm lost and I'm weary, so many tears , so don't stand near me

My every move is a calculated step to bring me closer To embrace an early death, now there's nothin' left”

Acts 17:22–28 “So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for “ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’”

Habakkuk 3:17 “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,”

Keep the fire lit. smoldering

2 Corinthians 2:14 “But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.”