Your Journey Through GriefНамуна

DAY TWELVE: Tears Are Temporary

Wiping tears away is something God has promised His people all along. 

Even back in Isaiah’s time, hundreds of years before Jesus, God talked about His plan to make things right—to do away with death and pain and tears. 

God wiping away your tears is both present and future. It’s receiving true comfort from God and others as you deeply mourn now. And it’s also embracing the absolute assurance that God will make everything—EVERYTHING—right in the end. 

No more death. No more pain. No more tears. That day is coming. 

Imagine the scene. You are standing in the New Jerusalem with others who have also believed in Jesus. Then comes this wonderful moment; God Himself makes His way toward you, puts His arm around you, and with His heavenly golden handkerchief wipes your tears away with a touch so gentle and healing that you will never need to cry again. 

And not only will He wipe the tears from your eyes; He will wipe them from your heart as well. 

Don’t quit now. Don’t give up short of being able to experience that moment. Your tears will be wiped away.