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   From:  cajunhillbilly (Willard01)   9/14/2001 7:00 am  
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The sympathetic love of the Incarnate God! 
From Winslow's "Christ's Love at the Grave of Lazarus" 

"Jesus wept." John 11:36 

These are among the most wonderful words 
recorded in the Bible. They mark the most 
exquisitely tender, touching, and expressive 
incident in His whole life. 

"Jesus wept," wept from emotion, wept from 
sympathy. Is there a more consolatory, soothing 
view of Christ's love than this? 

It is a compassionate, sympathizing, weeping love. 

The sympathy of Jesus never wearies or slumbers, 
it never chills or forgets. It entwines with our every 
cross, attaches to our every burden, and frosts 
with sparkling light, each darkling cloud. It is not the 
vapid sentiment of fiction, nor the morbid sympathy 
of romance. It is a divine-human reality. It is 
the sympathetic love of the Incarnate God! 

Let your faith, then, repose with confidence on 
the reality of Christ's sympathy with your grief. 

Oh how sacred and precious are the tears of divine 
love, the tears of Jesus! Soothed and sustained by 
such a sympathy as Christ's, we may well drink 
meekly the cup our Father mingles; we can well 
afford to be severed from all other sympathy, and 
weep out our sorrow in lonely places; Jesus weeping 
with us by the couch of languor, by the bed of 
darkness, and at the grave of buried love. 

O you afflicted one, tossed with tempest and not 
comforted, refuse not this cup of consolation which 
the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, would give you; the 
sympathy of your Lord and Savior, your Friend and 
Brother in the time of your calamity. Yield yourself 
to its irresistible power, and it will draw you 
submissively to His feet, and hush to rest your 
sobbing heart upon His bosom! 

 
  
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