{"id":5028,"date":"2014-02-12T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2014-02-11T17:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T01:58:04","slug":"tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/02\/12\/tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was on His way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with Him. Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother\u2019s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her. When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said, \u201cDon\u2019t cry.\u201d Then He came up and touched the open coffin, and the pallbearers stopped. And He said, \u201cYoung man, I tell you, get up!\u201d <\/p>\n

\tThe dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Then fear came over everyone, and they glorified God, saying, \u201cA great prophet has risen among us,\u201d and \u201cGod has visited His people.\u201d This report about Him went throughout Judea and all the vicinity. (Luke 7:11-17)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus didn\u2019t just feel the pain of others. He solved it. Jesus visited a small village called Nain, about six miles southeast of Nazareth. It is never mentioned anywhere else in the Bible. There was a widow, who was weeping over her only son who had just died. As a widow, her son would have been her only source of support and protection. In ancient Israel\u2019s patriarchal society, without a male relative, she would be reduced to begging. Like Naomi and Ruth upon their return to Bethlehem, her only hope was to find fields to glean in. She was facing very hard times, on top of her grief.<\/p>\n

\tIn the middle of a funeral procession, Jesus\u2019 words that she should \u201cstop crying\u201d would have been disconcertingly inappropriate. As if that weren\u2019t bad enough, he touched the casket and forced the pallbearers to stop walking. One can only imagine the shock and disbelief of the crowd as they watched what Jesus was doing.<\/p>\n

\tThen he told the dead man to get up. <\/p>\n

\tThe initial reaction of the crowd was terror. Once they realized fully what had happened, the funeral became a celebration. Their pain became joy. They decided that Jesus must be a great prophet. Why? Only Elijah and Elisha had ever raised people from the dead (1 Kings 17:17-24 and 2 Kings 4:18-37). <\/p>\n

\tJesus does not ask us to just keep a stiff upper lip, he does not want us to just suck it up. Jesus can wipe our tears away by taking the reason for our tears away. <\/p>\n

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