Day 211 – Sometimes grief can come on the heart like a waterfall of emotions.
Today’s Reading: Jeremiah 6 – 8
Jeremiah 8:18-22 “You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me. Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?” “The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.” Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?”
Honestly, it always shocks me when I’m overcome with grief. It’s never just one thing that causes the floodgates to open. Many burdens I carry for my brothers and sisters, my children, my friends, and each little one is like a drop of water. As each drop gathers, it flows from the tip of my toes up my body to my heart, making my pulse race, pushing the flood waters further, reaching my head and bursting forth from my eyes.
This is not common to me and takes time to come on, but I count it all as a gift of God. The joy and the grief, the burdens and the peace, they’re all a gift. A gift I give thanks for, the Joy leads to the cross and with the cross I carry the burdens of others.
God gives these gifts to his Chosen because His Spirit is living in us. He knows we will feel the same emotions He has felt. Our Lord is filled with Joy as He watches over us, but time after time our burdens grieve Him as well. He helps us, encourages us, and carries us further, but at some point His flood gates open up and we feel His tears.
Just think, as Jesus was preparing to leave this world He cried for us. He was grieved because we didn’t know that which we did. Yet even with all of this He still loved us. One day He promises our tears will be no more, our grief will be gone, and our hearts will only experience the Peace of the Spirit and the Joy of the Lord. Until that day, May our joy be big and our heart Bigger, to carry the burdens of others until Eternity comes.
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