Sorrow

One of the gifts the God of all Comfort gives to His children is sorrow. He--who knows the end of all things--was, yet, a man of sorrows. He wept at the tomb of Lazarus because some in the crowd doubted His love for Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Joseph was a man of many tears, many sorrows. Paul in Philippians cries that it would have been sorrow upon sorrow to lose his friend Epaphroditus. Having given us hearts that love and care, sorrow is a reflection of a heart just like His. Our tears are His eternal treasures. And because of His love--the One who weeps not just for us but with us--we are commanded to weep with those who weep, to take our sorrow and use it to comfort others with the comfort He gives us, and to refuse to sorrow as those who have no hope so that our deepest sorrows can be a testimony to our trust in His love. 

Sorrow and peace and joy and comfort are inescapable, inseparable "companions," on our journey Home to Him who will wipe all tears from our eyes.

"The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart."