Choosing your tears …

With scripture as our vehicle, let’s jump somewhere into the future:

3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, ‘Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever’,” Revelation 21:3-4.

When we are finally physically with Christ, tears will be gone for good!

But what are the tears scripture says He will wipe away? The source could be many things. But could it possibly include that when we are face-to-face with Christ, we will see how much of life we missed out on by our own choices, lack of self-discipline, and even laziness?

Could some of those tears come from realizing we could have been better, lived and loved much more fully, and yes, even accomplished more of what really mattered? Will we see that we embraced a spiritual mediocrity when we could have experienced a vibrancy of life?

How many of those tears will come from seeing how big a part of our lives we had allowed complacency to become?

That’s the future. How you live your life in Christ today and going forward will determine just how many tears Jesus will have to wipe away some day in the future.

Scotty