This one is for the sad. This is for those who don’t smile much. This is for the lonely, or those who feel alone. This is for those for whom crying is a daily occurrence. This is for the sorrowful and the weary. This is for those who are broken and know it; and see the brokenness all around them.
I’m with you. Life is full of the deepest kinds of sadness. Life is broken. Things are messed up. Things are not as they should be. On top of that, there is no way we can fix it; or fix anything. Whether we try to cover it up, close our eyes to it, or numb the sadness, it only makes it worse.
As Sally Lloyd-Jones says in the “Jesus Storybook Bible”: “One day everything sad will come untrue.” That’s one of my favorite sentences.
So many people want to blame God for all the pain, evil, and suffering in the world. That’s just silly. Yes, God is sovereign over all things; but if you read the book that God wrote, He says that He is making everything better. He is working to do away with pain, sadness, suffering, and evil forever! We are the ones who are to blame. Sin is the reason why things aren’t like they’re supposed to be. We are perpetual sinners. We’re the ones who broke everything and caused pain, sadness, and evil. God made everything good. In the garden of Eden everything was perfect for Adam. Then Adam sinned; and in Adam we all sinned. Now everything is broken.
But God didn’t want everything to stay broken. So He Himself came to put things back together. He came as a man. He came as Jesus. Jesus lived perfectly. Throughout Jesus’ life He made things right that were wrong. He healed the sick, cared for the poor, calmed storms, fed the hungry, and raised the dead. Then on the cross Jesus rescued sinners from the wrath of God, by taking on the wrath of God in their place. Jesus forgives sin and unites sinners back to God. At the cross Jesus fixes the relationship between God and man that was broken by man in the garden by sin.
The gospel is more than just good news that Jesus forgives sinners. It is also good news that Jesus is redeeming all of creation and making all things new. He’s doing something much bigger than individual salvation. He’s making a kingdom. He’s doing away with evil and sadness.
Sin is the reason why we have broken families. Jesus destroys sin and restores the brokenness by making an eternal family that cannot be broken.
Sin is the reason why people we love die. Jesus has defeated death, reigns victorious over death, and restores death by creating a kingdom where people will live forever and never die because there will be no sin present there.
Sin is the reason we experience loneliness. Jesus has demolished all loneliness and isolation by creating a kingdom of people who are united together as one under His lordship and satisfied in the enjoyment of God forever.
Sin is the reason why we have enemies and people hate us. Jesus has torn down the wall of hostility and makes enemies His family and family with each other.
The gospel literally changes everything.
We get an incredible picture of what’s coming in Revelation 21:1-5a:
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And i saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Jesus will forever make sad hearts happy in Him. Those who have been broken and have no stock in this world will be given everything in eternity. One day pain, sadness, and death will be but a memory and tears will be no more. Jesus is fixing things. Take heart, this world is not our home. Jesus is preparing a kingdom for us where only good and happy things happen forever.
If you love the world and the things of the world then you will die with the world, and you’ll have no place in God’s kingdom. For those who have no appetite for the world, Christ is preparing an eternal banquet, a feast, a celebration that all things are made right.
When we arrive at eternity’s shore, where death is just a memory and tears are no more, we’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring, the bride will come together and we’ll sing.
Jesus has done it. He has won. We will forever be happy in our victorious king.
“One day everything sad will come untrue.”
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