“It get’s me every time — how Jesus weeps…. but He, also, does more than just weep, & He feels more than just compassion with us in our grief. We’re actually told that Jesus is “deeply moved in spirit” not once but twice (John 11) …

Some translators even render it as “a deep anger” that “welled up within him” (NLT).

What’s this raw mixture of grief and groaning and fury that roiled within Him?

Jesus wasn’t only weeping over Lazarus, because He knew He was about to miraculously raise Lazarus from the dead….

Jesus wasn’t just weeping for Martha and Mary, because He knew their grief tears were about to turn to tears of delirious joy as He rose their brother, Lazarus, from the dead…

What was happening was staggering:

When Jesus stood by a grave on this planet…
Jesus saw YOU.

Jesus thought of YOU.

And seeing YOU grieving at gravesides, seeing YOU hurting with loss and heartache and sadness… Jesus wept.

Jesus was furious over how losing your people, your beloveds,
would hurt you.

With tears blurring His whole world, Jesus stands with each of us who will ever sit with deep loss, weeping hard, hating loss and darkness and death as much as we do, and Jesus is ferociously angry, to hell and back, with the horror and havoc of the darkness of death for each of us….

And that’s what holds us:

Jesus’ sovereignty over everything may cover us,
but it’s Jesus’ solidarity with us in everything
that deeply comforts us.

(Abba) God knows: Shared tears are always multiplied healing.

Jesus weeps …. and we know:

The comfort we seek is always found in the arms of the co-suffering (Abba) God.

🙏❤️