“As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!”
When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. Jesus wept.”
John 11:32-33, 35 CSB
It is surprising to me that Jesus weeps for the sorrow they have over Lazarus’s death. If I were Jesus, I would be so excited to raise him back to life that I would be hyping the crowd and telling them that they didn’t have to be sad. I would be waving away the real grief they were experiencing…clearly, not the right way to handle it.
We don’t know exactly what Jesus was thinking here, but we do see His compassion. We see His empathy. We see His humanity. And we see the heart of God on display!
Even though God knows the next part of our stories, where everything wrong is fixed, He still grieves with us in our suffering. He knows our pain, sadness, fear and anxieties! And He wants us to trust Him like Mary and Martha who just knew that Jesus could have fixed everything. Or maybe better yet, knew that He was already making things better, even through the pain…
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