Real Men Cry!

When Jesus saw that Mary and the people with her were crying, he was terribly upset
and asked, “Where have you put his body?”
They replied, “Lord, come and you will see.”
Jesus started crying, and the people said, “See how much he loved Lazarus.”

John 11:33-36

Do you ever feel like it is "un-Christ-like" to express truly human emotions? Here is Jesus caught up in the most overwhelming of all human emotions. Jesus is crying! One of the most blatantly false, but commonly held beliefs is that "real men don't cry!"

Jesus was a man, a real man, and when he was confronted with the weeping of those who loved Lazarus, Jesus began to shed tears as well!

The Creator of all things made for Himself a human body in the form of a man. He put that body on and lived among us as a Real Man with all the feelings, pain, joy, and sorrow. Jesus loved everyone who had ever or will ever live. God Himself was walking around in flesh. And God was crying with us!

Later in the Book of Romans the Bible tells us to cry with those that cry. "Real Men Do Cry!" It's just another way to share in being like Jesus.
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