I Wonder Why Jesus Wept?

 
About 6 houses down from mine, I spied this buck getting ready to walk down the hillside.  I told him 'don't move' and ran back to get my camera.  He obliged, and graciously posed for this picture!

I am a big fan of the poetry of the late Ruth Bell Graham (the wife of Billy Graham).  I would like to share one of my favorites with you...but first I need to set the scene.  Many of you are familiar with the John Chapter 11  account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.  If not, please read John 11:1-45 before you read this poem.  It deals with a possible reason of why, in verse 35, 'Jesus wept'...

 

Jesus wept.

But why?

Knowing what lay ahead

moments away...

Was it because

He had not come

when He heard

Lazarus might die?

Lazarus was dead!

Was it in sympathy

with their raw grief,

faith's impotent lack?

Or could it be

because He

had to bring him

back?

 

(Poem by Ruth Bell Graham, taken from the book "Footprints of a Pilgrim")

If you are interested in reading Ruth's poetry, or prose, I found a lot of her work available at the online bookstore of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, at billygraham.org   DLB