He Who Makes God Cry
“Jesus wept.” John 11:35.
Human emotions are often troubling. So much so that the average believer is afraid to show or show them too much. Within the former, we have the archetype for the believer who has disassociated from their emotions in fear of what they might reap, insecure as to whether or not they have enough Holy Ghost in them to control said emotions rather than the vehemences controlling them.
Still, God is a God of emotions. Joy, wrath, love, and hate exist within Him, and they are in us, given we are where He delights to dwell. A church without emotions is dead; this we know, and any believer afraid to feel them lives in the most prominent, contrary emotion of all: fear.
Imagine the irony.
This is not to say that we are exclusively emotional, nor should we apply human understanding to Godly concepts, for the emotions of God are spiritual, the same as God is a spirit.
Love is more than familial or romantic, but of God, going beyond human intellectualism and into spirituality. Hate should not be used to justify attacks against our brothers and sisters, in and out of Christ, but rather to hate the sin, the disbelief—the devil. Joyfulness is not an overcompensation for sadness but rather a counter to the feeling, an amplifier to happiness, for both of those emotions are temporary, yet joy is eternal.
Wrath, as terrible as it sounds, is a great motivator when fighting against the devil and his minions, especially when the evil of this world is revealed, as it has been and will continue to be in our time. Still, giving into wrath as your primary motivator is dangerous, for though this emotion is present, its exclusivity in vengeance is reserved for God when the flesh is focused on.
Now, the other archetype: the over-emotional believer that modern churches and their leaders have created to replicate the Spirit of God while robbing the people of a true Holy Ghost experience. They do not follow the model God has established but rather follow their business model that creates repeat customers.
The devil can pervert and impersonate the Spirit of God, but there is only one God, one spirit, one mind, one word, one son, and one Father.
These all are one.
Whatever is done that does not agree with this is not of God and should be identified as such, for your sake. You who rest your salvation—which is every one of us—what do you rest your salvation in? Christ or the church? The denominations have established a way, but it is not the way; in this way, the wolves in sheep’s clothing lead you to damnation in place of doctrine so they may line their pocketbooks on earth rather than multiply their riches in Heaven.
The church has become a club, a place of dancing to secular music with the label ‘Christian’ slapped onto it. It is complete with a light show and emotion-based preaching that ties perfectly into choreographed ‘experiences,’ similar to that of Hollywood, specifically Walt Disney. The word of God is not a show; it is not a put-on, emotion-exclusive experience that allows you to go clubbing ‘safely,’ away from sex, booze, and drugs.
Sin is not drugs, booze, and sex; it is disbelief in God, who is the word, program, and model.
So where is the balance?
“Jesus Wept,” soon after, Jesus says, “Lazarus, come forth.”
What was the purpose of the groaning? Why is God grieved? Why did the anointed one shed tears?
Emotions are a natural human element felt by Christ himself, but though felt, they were overcome and used by God within him to work a miracle that would convert the multitude around him to believe in him. Emotions are a motivator, a fuel, that ties us to the fight with personal stakes, not to be ignored but to be felt and used only when applied with the Holy Ghost, God, within us.
When we are happy, God is happy; when we are sold, God empathizes with the sadness; when we laugh, God laughs; when we cry, God wipes away the tears; when God is angry at the devil, we are angry at the devil because God is in us, living through us, feeling it all, overcoming everything and doing what it is we have been sent here to do by Him, just as Jesus did.
Who is he that makes God cry? Those who are dead the same as Lazarus, Jesus’s friend, once was. Why? Because we who are mortal should see the tragedy of the world, the state that it’s in, and be grieved, groaning for a better outcome and sorrowful, not because it is all hopeless, but because the Spirit of God in us cries out, knowing the coming consequence.
God within us desires all to be saved. Friends, family, and all who are being deceived, the lost souls who are being led astray, for we know the wages of sin.
Thus, let us not sit in the emotion alone, nor ignore the human element that God has placed within us, but take on the Holy Ghost to have those spirit-fueled emotions, to tell the Lazaruses of this world to come forth.
