“If My very own blood was shed for you, why do you marvel that I would shed tears also?” (from Tears from a Lonely God – Chapter Two: Lonely Arms.)

Occasionally I get someone that asks me, “would God really cry?” And apparently they hadn’t bothered to read to even the second chapter, where it is explained in a little more detail.

But, beyond what’s written in that chapter, there is also the Bible. Looking for godly examples of crying, there is: Joseph, David, Jeremiah, the apostle Paul, and last but not least, our Lord and Savior Himself:

“Jesus wept.” -John 11:35

It seems as though crying is a natural and healthy human function, and so, it would stand to reason that God, who created man in His own image, is also capable of crying: though perhaps in a way that is different and unique. God is of course immutable and unchangeable, but He is also capable of having feelings and emotions: though I believe in a much purer and grander pattern than man’s.

Here is a clear example of grief. I believe, if in a pure and noble way, that God is “hurt” by the sins of mankind:

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” -Genesis 6:5-7

But, as the first quote at the top of this page suggests, I think that the point is not whether or not God would cry: for it is a small thing for Him to cry on your behalf: but rather, that He would bleed, and even die on your behalf. And the question to you the reader now is: would God really bleed for you?

Do you really believe that God would die for you? Do you truly believe that He has atoned for your sins on the cross? As that hymn pointedly asks: “Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?”

“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” -Revelation 1:4-6

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