Why tears?

 Why tears?? Why don't we have control over them?? They seem to live a life of their own. Swelling up and flowing over...

John 11:33-37 

33 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.34 And he said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see.35 Jesus wept.36 So the Jews said, See how he loved him!37 But some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?

 Challange:

Characteristics of God: Part 1

Why would Jesus weep for his friend if he was going to bring him back to life?

I think He weeps because it is a sad thing that has happened.
It's not only sad that the person is gone, but the emotions, the loss experienced by those that are left behind. Soometimes I find myself crying more when someone else is going through a loss, than when I do myself. Not that I have lost to many myself, but I have witnessed many lose someone dear. I was to little to understand it when I lost my first grandfather. I barely remember him. Then when I lost my second I was older, but didn't really have a relationship with him. My cosin (old enought that her oldest daugther was my age) lost her father in law, then her three month old baby boy (only boy) and not long after her mother. Mother's sister in law. I am ranting a bit here, but this is only a little piece of the losses that I have witnessed. Those last once happened after I turned 13, so you see I wasn't very old. A lot of the time I wasn't sure what to feel myself, 'cause I didn't always know those that was lost. But I could see what those people meant to those that where left behind. The grief they had to live with. I do also think that there might be a chance that Jesus weapt because He knew where Lazarus was, what He had to bring him back from.

Do you agree with the statement "Deep love allows for deep suffering"? Explain.

The more you love a person, the more you will miss them. The bigger impact on your life, the more you see what they meant, what they did and what you have lost. I recently lost my mother in law. I knew she was a great person, I knew she did a lot for us. But now that she is gone, I can see just how much she did. How much she was a part of our lives. It's been almost a year, and sometimes I miss her more now. She was like a second mother to me. If there was something I was wondering about, I often called her. Now that I can't call or drop in. I see how much I did need her, and how much I should have been there even more. Does that make sense?? Our neighbour just lost her father. Relatives of my husband. Husband of our other neighbour. We didn't have much to say to eachother since we moved in here. Even the fact that we were related didn't seem to matter. But these last couple of years, since the daughter married. We spoke, greeted and started a relationship. And before we could really get to know him, he was gone. So I hope that it makes the rest of us a little closer...

Till next time,
God Bless