Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Tears are given as seeds to be sown, not treasures to be bottled and kept to be admired. Nothing dries faster than a tear and those who work to lengthen their wetness are working against the grain. So weep, mourn, and shed tears, but let them hit the ground that they might spring up. Don't seek to treasure pain and sorrow in a scrapbook. Pour it out and allow it to die in the ground like water spilled that cannot be recovered.
2 Samuel 14:14
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
Tears will come, but tears must fall. Let them flow and let them go. As they are buried, they shall be reborn as shouts for joy and shoulders weighted down by sheaves. Our shoulders ought to slump under the weight of resurrection promises, not under the gloom of morbid introspection,
Romans 6:5
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
John 12:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Tears shed like showers water the shoots of shouts of joy yet to come.
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