{"id":2824,"date":"2007-12-17T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T03:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/god-send-us-tears"},"modified":"2007-12-17T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T03:27:26","slug":"god-send-us-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/12\/17\/god-send-us-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"God Send Us Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trials and Pain: God Send Us Tears<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even<br \/>\nweeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end<br \/>\nis destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in<br \/>\ntheir shame-who set their mind on earthly things.<br \/>\n&#8211;Philippians 3:18-19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bible was written in tears and to tears it will yield its best<br \/>\ntreasures. God has nothing to say to the frivolous man&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The psalmists often wrote in tears, the prophets could hardly<br \/>\nconceal their heavyheartedness, and the apostle Paul in his<br \/>\notherwise joyous epistle to the Philippians broke into tears when<br \/>\nhe thought of the many who were enemies of the cross of Christ and<br \/>\nwhose end was destruction. Those Christian leaders who shook the<br \/>\nworld were one and all men of sorrows whose witness to mankind<br \/>\nwelled out of heavy hearts. There is no power in tears per se, but<br \/>\ntears and power ever lie close together in the Church of the<br \/>\nFirst-born&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The whole Christian family stands desperately in need of a<br \/>\nrestoration of penitence, humility and tears. May God send them<br \/>\nsoon.<br \/>\nGod Tells the Man Who Cares, pp. 2-3,6<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This being so, Lord, I pray this morning that You would break me<br \/>\nand send the tears. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trials and Pain: God Send Us Tears For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame-who set their mind on earthly things&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}