“And God Cried”?????

Actually, that is the title of a beautiful choral composition by Robert Sterling. I don’t know of any scripture that states God cried, but it makes sense that He felt great sorrow that day Jesus died on the cross, loaded down with our sins.

The scriptures DO tell us that Jesus cried when His good friend, Lazarus, died. Verse 26 of Genesis, chapter 1, states God made man in His own image and a large part of that make-up would be emotions as well as actions.

Some time ago my accountability partner and I were memorizing Zephaniah 3:17. At the end of the verse (NKJV), it says, “He (the Lord) will rejoice over you with singing.” Because of my musical background, that really struck a chord with me (no pun intended). The idea that God would rejoice over me with singing was so captivating, I decided I wanted to re-read the Old Testament from the last chapters of Job to the end of Malachi.  My assignment would be to look for other emotions or attributes God was recorded as having.

I’ve progressed as far as Psalm 20 but was totally fascinated with what I discovered in Psalm 18.  For instance, God is:  my strength, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my shield, my stronghold.  I really need all these things and these phrases are all contained in just the first five verses—how cool is that!

The psalmist goes on to state God is worthy to be praised, trustworthy, and hears my cry.

Then we get to descriptive words of emotion. For example, God’s anger, which David poetically writes of as manifestations of nature—thunder, earthquakes, volcanoes, unearthly darkness, hailstones, lightning, sleet, and tsunamis.

The opposite of God’s anger is His delight in us and His mercy. He is blameless, pure, holy, and get this—shrewd. Well, of course He is. Nobody can outsmart God.

It is so awesome to realize that God is active in my life, just as He is for all His children.  I can hardly wait to discover something new about Him tomorrow.