Today I would like us to imagine that we could hear the thoughts of God and Jesus. The shortest Bible verse is John 11:35, “Jesus wept.” Jesus wept because Mary and Martha were crying over the loss of their brother Lazarus. Little did they know or understand the power that Jesus had. Jesus could feel their pain. What a great learning point for us to understand that God knows our pain, that he knows exactly what we need in our lives. Sometimes we are so wrapped up with the situation at hand that we forget to hand it over to the Master, to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. There is another time that Jesus wept. It is found in Luke chapter 19 when he looks at Jerusalem and was broken hearted because they were going to reject Him and he knew it. The Pharisees were all wrapped up in a religious duty. They had lost the love for God and everything that it meant. It became a job and nothing more than that to the Pharisees and scribes. I can only imagine that as Jesus wept, God also shed a tear on those days. For God himself also knew that soon they would take his Son and torture him beyond imagination and hang him on a cross. Imagine the tears that had to be in God’s eyes. Salvation was at hand, but few knew it or understood what price was paid.

We also know in Genesis 6:6 that God was so broken hearted that he repented, or regretted, making man on the face of the earth. Why? Because man had become so bad that every thought of their heart was on doing evil. God had decided to flood the earth and start over with mankind. On that day, I am sure God was just like Jesus and tears filled his eyes because man rejected their heavenly Father. Man sought after the things of this world and listened to their father, the devil. Jesus also knew that the people of his time belonged to their father, the devil. The quote is from John 8:44, “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.” The devil is a murderer, a liar, the father of all lies. Jesus was saying that we do the same as the devil. I can only think that the tears of God fell to the floor.

How do God and Jesus react today to the way we live. I am sure there are times that we make Jesus and God still cry today. Sin has become so bad in the world that if God would recline his head on a pillow, it would be stained with his tears as we approach a lifestyle the same as in Noah’s time. Look at the sin of the world today: the human trafficking; child abuse; murders; rape; the individual that is looking for peace in a drug filled life; running to a bottle of booze to find some sort of happiness; the empty sex life with no commitment, but filled with self-satisfying acts of lust which produces unwanted pregnancy. So now we carry out the will of our father the devil becoming judge and jury (you become like God), off to the abortion center just like taking out the trash. As God, Jesus, and all of heaven WEEPS.

Now let us look at the Church that okays all this sin. We are weak in the Holy Spirit that we care more about the bottom line of our church’s bank account, filling the seats and worshipping the building more than being concerned about people going to hell. We have forgotten to preach the gospel of true salvation and became Pharisees making our own rules and regulations. We have discredited the Word of God (the Bible). Now some of the Church approves of living together without being married and also approves of same sex lifestyles. This fulfills the parable of the 10 virgins (churches). It is clear that half of them will not be ready at the second coming of Jesus Christ.

What is the answer? Tear-stained pillows. When is the last time you cried for the salvation of someone? When have you gone early to church just to pray for your people? Or are you wrapped up in the business of the world? Do you wake up in the night heavy hearted over a soul that you know needs salvation? We run to every event on Sunday, but we forget Church, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. We run everywhere but church. We never run to an altar of prayer. We are prideful and arrogant. Dear God and Jesus, forgive us for making you cry. May we learn to cry for others so we too can put on a white robe of salvation.