Could Make A Grown Man Cry

I’m sitting across the table from this guy who is explaining the game of golf to me. Words like eagle and birdie used to be mere species flying all over the earth. But on this day, they meant something completely different to someone else. As he began to tell me how mentally prepared one must be to be a good golfer, I thought to myself how hard could it REALLY be? It was as if he heard my thought. His next sentence was, “it could make a grown man cry.” I saw an atheist arguing with a Christian once. The Christian began to weep. I thought, “oh no, he lost.” He began to tell the atheist about how although his argument was very well put together, he simply was not there when the now Christian had a gun to his own head, he wasn’t there to see Jesus rescue him from a life engulfed in things that only kill him. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

And a man at the point of losing his life who is rescued, I just think maybe it could… make a grown man cry. I was riding shotgun with this guy who just bought a house for him and his family. Doing what most husbands do, He went outside to simply mow the lawn. He couldn’t get the blade to cut. But that wasn’t it, bills were at an all time high, and there at his very own broken lawn mower the pressure hit him and he, a grown man, began to weep. There is some pride deep down inside a man that wants to do his best to take care of his land, his family, and I think that at some point in some grown men’s lives, if they fall short of doing just that, maybe… it could make a grown man cry. There’s this friend of mine who just graduated college. He didn’t know what he was going to do when he graduated, and he still doesn’t know.

There is this pressure that comes upon all of us as we “grow up.” We get to this milestones that tell us that we have to at least be doing something. Not everybody knows their PURPOSE. Not everybody has all their ducks lined in a row. And my friend… well… his mom told me he would stay up late at night asking himself “what am I going to do with my life?”… and she said… he would cry.

I heard about this lady once, and she was looking for who she thought was most important person in the world. She thought he was on the only person in the world who could fix her problems. She heard he was in town and so she came running to him and said, “if only you were here, you could have saved my brother.” The man comes to her house and sees that it was true, it was too late, her brother had truly died. And the Bible says that this half grown man half grown God, Jesus… wept. Perhaps it was the look on Mary’s face that made this man cry. Whatever the reason is, Jesus told them to remove the stone and told Lazarus to come on out and take off his “grave clothes.” In other words, he told Lazarus to take off what did pronounce him dead. I had a situation today that made me honestly want to cry. And a song came to heart that had words of “nothing… is… impossible… for… You….” and then I read this scripture and I dunno… I just believe it. You may or may not have a situation that can make you cry, but it ain’t over. It ain’t over. Nothing… is… impossible… for… Jesus. And When your situation turns around… stop wearing your grave clothes….