The Men of Emotion

Four examples of men who were emotional and who made no attempt to hide it.

Jesus
John 11:33,35
"Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. [ ] Jesus wept."

David
2 Samuel 12:16-17
"David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them."

Jeremiah
Lamentations 2:11
"My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city."

Even the psalmist
Psalm 42:3
"My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?" "

I have not been one of these men. God has produced in me these emotions which historically I would have hardened my heart too, falsely believing that if my relationship with Christ was solid I could not be sad or depressed. This idea could not be farther from the truth as demonstrated by The Christ Himself and these other men of God.

I am called to have compassion upon people, but I can not have true compassion if I do not "feel."It is merely a product of my actions. God examines the heart. Christ felt for those weeping on behalf of Lazarus' death. It hit Him to the core. So am I called to be, but it must be the triune God doing the work in me. I may not seize it, can not act it out. If it is through suffering that this piece of God is created in me, let it be done. For "It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD" because "There may yet be hope." (Lamentations 3:26,29) It is for this hope, for this salvation and piece of God, that I endure suffering. "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." (Romans 8:18) The bits of God which I have tasted have proven the previous statement to be exceedingly true!