Thursday of the Sixth Week of
Easter
May 9, 2013
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you
will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but
your sorrow will turn into joy” (John 16: 20)
Nothing dries faster than tears.
Short sorrow can bring infinite joy. For the businessman the heartache of
investing will soon give way to joy. As you start a business there can be lots
of problems from the outset. Time will come when you will milk money from the
business. For the farmers who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. For a
student thrown into a state of anxiety, burning the midnight oil in order to
study, his or her efforts will bear fruits. His or her sorrow will turn into
joy when the transcript will be coloured by “As.” There is no Good Friday
without the Easter Sunday. The example from nature tells it all: A woman when
she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour has come; but as soon as she is
delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for there is joy
that a man is born into the world. There is no sweet without sweat.
Are you sorrowful? Hold on what
Charles H. Spurgeon said, “There is a sweet joy that comes to us through
sorrow.” Are you suffering? “Out of
suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are
seared with scars,” said Edwin H. Chapin. Is your heart full of pain? “Pain
insists on being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in
our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf
world,” said C.S. Lewis. Are you laid off as a worker? It is no good crying
over spilt milk for so long. As you hunt for a job God will open new doors. By
the way God wants you to tread on new avenues. Whatever is happening to you may
be due to God’s artistic skills to make your story interesting. Your sorrow
will turn into joy.
