I Don’t Know Why I Have To Cry Sometimes

Scientifically, it says that tears can rise from pain or some kind of irritation. It depends on what is being felt at the time which bring the tears. Some cry more than others. The question being presented, I don’t know why I cry sometimes. Now, biblically, a prophet’s life is never easy. There is one prophet comes to mind that may answer the question for us. Let’s go see Jeremiah who was best known as the Weeping Prophet. He was a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah. Doing this time Judah was led captive to Babylon. Jeremiah was sent to the nation to warn them of their demise, Despite the warnings Jeremiah gave of been overtaken by conquerors they didn’t heed his words. So, who was this weeping prophet in a dying nation who also brought words of comfort and promise?

Jeremiah was called at a young age to speak on the behave of God’s people. In his years of preaching, he was whipped, jailed, attacked, threatened by the king of that time, and even thrown into a well. Worst of all Jeremiah was alone. The people turned against him, his family turned against him, and he had no spouse. He was alone with the knowing of the horrors that were to come. Jeremiah spent years delivering God’s message of repentance and restoration to Judah. Jeremiah 31:4, “I have loved you with an everlasting love: I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again, and you, will be rebuilt (Put your name here). Again, you will take up your tambourine and go out to dance with the joyful.” This echoes celebration and rejoicing when that day comes. Now back to Jeremiah.

The prophet lived in a time of war, starvation, and captivity. Many times, he cries out to God. Which the book of Lamentations, a series of cries about the people in captivity. Jeremiah grieved over the gloominess of his message, the grief he expressed for his people, the loneliness and sufferings. The weeping prophet bore his cross with honors. Psalms 119:136 (Message Bible) “I shed rivers of tears, because nobody’s living your book!” In his sorrows he showed the heart of God. Jeremiah wept over Judah’s rebellion, but it came a day that it came a stopping point to the mourning.

“Restrain Your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears…” Jeremiah (31:16-17). A. W. Tozer wrote, “You can’t carry a cross in company, your cross is yours alone and you’re carrying it marks you as a man/woman set apart. So, sometimes we mourn. It is ok to weep and those who say they don’t that is ok too. I don’t know why I have to cry sometimes, but I do know that after the water falls a relief has come. Though we may cry sometimes and don’t know the reason why. Wipe the tears from your eyes, because weeping my endure for a night but joy comes in the morning (Psalm 30:5).