Collins Concise Dictionary defines sorrow as:
1.
The feeling of sadness, grief, or regret
associated with loss, bereavement, sympathy for another’s suffering etc.
2.
A particular cause or source of this.
Sorrow is usually associated with a loss of some kind.
Sorrow can happen to an individual, to family, to friends, to work colleagues
and even on a national scale. Loss of life in events such as bushfires, floods,
tsunamis, cyclones and earthquakes are times of great mourning and sorrow.
Loss of property and livelihoods bring sorrow. Loss of
health and wellbeing also bring sorrow.
In each person’s life there will come times of sorrow.
It is good for Christians to know that the Lord Jesus Christ,
our Great High Priest has passed through this scene and knows what we pass
through in our lives.
Hebrews 4:15, 16 tell us, “(15) For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our
weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. (16) Let
us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need.”
The Greek word peirazo
translated as tempted can also mean a testing, or a trial of some kind.
The Lord Jesus knows what it is to sorrow. The prophetic word in Lamentations
1:12 gives a graphic scene from His innermost soul at Calvary.
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Behold and see if there be any sorrow like My sorrow, which has been brought on
Me, which the Lord has inflicted in the day of his fierce anger.”
Calvary brought intense sorrow to the Lord Jesus Christ. He
knows and understands when we sorrow. One of the great triumphs of His work at
Calvary will be the end of all sorrow for those who have been redeemed and love
Him.
Revelation 21:3, 4 state, “(3) And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be
His people. God himself will be with them and be their God. (4) And God will
wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain,
for the former things have passed away.”
In eternity, in the New Heavens and the New Earth, there will be no more sorrow!
Jon Peasey
[All Scriptures quoted are from the New King James version]
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