Jesus wept. The shortest verse in the Bible. The psalmist gives a prophetic glimpse of His tears in Psalm 6. Have you ever felt like this?

“I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.” (Psalm 6:6). We know that Jesus often prayed to His Father, sometimes through the night. In the book of Hebrews we learn that “in the days of His flesh” he prayed with  “strong crying and tears” . That’s intense.

We all have our own “wet pillow” times, when  life comes crashing in on us. That is okay.  To cry is to be human. It’s part of our journey upward  to Zion, the City of God. Look at these words in Psalm 84.  

⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶ Passing through the Valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs; the early rain also fills [the pools] with blessings.

⁷ They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each of them appears before God in Zion.

The road to Zion goes through the Valley of Weeping. Jesus has been there. He walks with us, He cries with us. He knows us inside out, and He waits for us at the Throne of Grace, ready to help us when we need Him, which is pretty much every moment of our lives. Do we like the Valley? No. But we love the blessings that come as we submit to the tears, as we rise up in His empowering Grace. And that Valley of Weeping becomes a Spring of Life to us and those around us.