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Weep For Your Soul
(Lk23:26-31)

God is the God of comfort (Ps86:17).
He saves those who are crushed in spirit (Ps34:18) and
Eternally comforts the truly repentant and mourning souls (Mt5:4).
 
Faith is my soul being comforted by God and by the word of God (Ps119:50), and
The life of this faith is rejecting worldly comfort (Is22:4), and
Only mourning and weeping before God for
There will be a day when God will wipe away every tear from my eyes (Rev7:17).
 
The Bible is a mirror that looks into my soul and makes me cry (Jas1:23)
For comfort is necessary for those who are sad, in pain, and in suffering.
While Adam was driven out of the Garden after he sinned
God clothed him in garment of skin (Ge3:21), a sign of God’s comfort in the future.
 
The Bible is a story of those who wept bitterly before God and were comforted:
Hannah who was childless — received a son (1Sa1:10);
King Hezekiah who was about to die — 15 years were added to his life (2Ki20:1-6);
King David who was full of scars — his sacrifice, his broken spirit, was received (Ps6:6-9, 51:17).
 
Despite the fact that the Law led Israel to wail (Eze30:2), as
Even breaking one point of it led to death (Jas2:10),
Israel misunderstood and responded in one voice that they will do everything accordingly (Ex24:3).
As such, even in his trial, Job comforted himself by his self-righteousness for keeping it (Job6:10).
 
Although the Temple of Jerusalem reminded that Jehovah alone is the comfort for Israel (Ps51:12),
The people clung to deceit and refused to return (Jer8:5).
Inevitably as a result, ruin and destruction, famine and sword came upon them (Is51:19).
 
Nevertheless there were hopeful prophecies of God’s comfort:
God will redeem Jerusalem (Is52:9, 66:13);
Israel will mourn for Him the One they pierced (Zec12:10); and
He will turn their mourning into gladness (Jer31:13).
Accordingly, the Word in the beginning, the God of comfort, became flesh to fulfill (Jn1:1-2, 14).
 
Yeshua said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body, He would comfort (Jn2:19-21):
The Law/ a mirror—looking at the flesh—Israel mourned (Is22:12-14);
The Truth/ a mirror—looking at my soul—souls mourn (Mt5:4).
 
While He comforted those who were in desperate situations (Lk7:12-15, 37-38, 8:52-55),
He warned curse on those who did not weep when it was time to weep (Lk6:25, 7:31-34),
For they will be thrown outside, into the darkness and weep forever (Mt8:11, 22:12-13, 24:48-51).
 
On His last night, Yeshua wept in tears all night and prayed (La1:2; Mt26:37; He5:7) and
As He died on the cross, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1)    Died according to the command, and confessed that the only comforter for the Son is the Father (Jn10:18);
2)    Judged the devil who led Adam to sin by false comfort (Ge3:4-6); and
3)    His death—a sin offering—suffering and sorrow in place of all mankind (Is53:10)
His blood—for souls—comforted mankind who suffered for the will of God (Is40:1).
 
He resurrected and ascended to heaven, and He is the Lamb on the throne (Rev7:9) where
He is comforted by the Father forever.
The Holy Spirit came to the souls who received the blood of Yeshua, God’s comfort, and
Makes them weep for their souls:
1)    For the wretched, unchanged man I am—in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin (Rm7:22-25);
2)    For my soul that does not grow—a child who only thinks of himself (1Co13:11)—not reaching the measure of the maturity of Christ (Eph4:13)—mature faith, mature character that is,
a.    Forgive brothers—70 times seven (Mt6:9, 18:21-35; Lk6:37, 11:4)
b.    Looking after one another toward love and good deeds (Lk6:30; He10:24)
c.    Mourn with those who mourn (Rm12:15);
3)    For empty ways of life—sexual immorality, slander etc (1Ti5:14; He12:16; 1Pe1:18-19);
4)    For having no fruit—like childless Hannah.
 
O Lord,
Yeshua who comforted Peter who denounced the Lord three times and wept bitterly (Lk22:31-32)!
Let us all have the blessing of mourning!  The blessing of mournful tears!
Let us weep and weep in this life so in that day
The Lord comforts us at the river of the water of life in heaven.  Amen.