DON'T CRY

These challenges in life may seem to be too much to bear and burdensome. Fuelled by difficult situations is overcoming your zeal for God when you look at what is going on around your life; and or in that ministry. You even are contemplating to quit the call.

Friends and buddies seem to be far beyond your reach, your loved ones also may not have a clue at what you’re going through. You feel rejected, despised and that there’s no one to share with in what you’re going through.

This is what the widow of Nain was experiencing, a mother of one and only dearest son, the one that she was depending on. The son who was her only last hope of living after losing her husband, alas! Now he has passed away gone on a journey, away from the living and never to return again. His lifeless body laid in the casket as it is being carried for burial.

The somber mood filled the air, neighbors and close friends wailing and crying as the dead person is being carried away, a large crowd from the town was with her. This young man who was loved by many is now no more; he might have been engaged to one of the maids in Nain.

As the people wailed and cried with the widow, you can definitely see what is going through her mind at this time. She is asking the very familiar questions at our Lord JESUS CHRIST, when all was collapsing and shuttering before her eyes as the events unfold. Now it is adorning to her that she will never see her beloved son again..........“Why, why, why. Why did this have to happen me, why is it my son” sobbing uncontrollably “my only baby, did I do anything wrong to deserve this”, life is so unfair! She sobs, weeping and muttered at herself, “I even don’t see any reason to live anymore, please Lord take me too........” before she could complete that sentence, JESUS CHRIST saw her, and HIS heart went out to her and HE said, "DON’T CRY"……............

JESUS CHRIST is speaking to you and your situation. No matter how horrible it may look, HE is saying the same words to you “DON’T CRY”, “for all is not lost and you’re not alone in this”.

He knows the depth of that situation. He too was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

He knows your every thought. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you HOPE and a FUTURE. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I WILL LISTEN TO YOU. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

He sees those tears that fall and He hears when you call. Then JESUS went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!" The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

They were all filled with awe and praised God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said. "God has come to help his people." This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.

See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland…............

Stay blessed in the awesome presence of our LORD JESUS CHRIST for there, there's more than what you can expect!

Bro. Godfrey Nengo

Extracts from bible (NIV and NKJ) used: Matthew 11:28-30; Luke 7:11-16; Jeremiah 29:11-13; Isaiah 53: 3; Isaiah 43:19.