In the Midst of Heartbreak: Where is God?

YOU NEVER CRY ALONE — no one ever, ever cries alone. Jesus weeps with you over every loss, every grief, every tragedy.   Maybe those are two of the most powerful words in all of Scripture, in all our suffering: “Jesus wept.” In the midst of all kinds of excruciating heartache and devastating headlines — the real lifeline for all our heartbreak is: Jesus comes, and Jesus sees, and Jesus weeps, and the reality is that Jesus didn’t just enter into the world; Jesus intimately enters into your hurting world, the world of your broken heart.  The wounds of your heart makes the God of heaven weep; and your heart has always wholly captivated His, because this is who He is, and has always been:  “When Jesus saw (Mary) weeping (after the death of her brother  Lazarus), 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.” (John 11) The moment invites you to feel His arms around you: Your tears move Jesus to tears.  No one in the history of the world […]