Sorrow Turned to Joy

It was a cold slab of granite.

The name and date carved into the hard surface were beginning to fade. The years had taken their toll on the monument, and on the elderly woman who stood before it. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she remembered. Years earlier she had stood on the same spot as her only child had been laid to rest. Time had not lessened the loss. He was gone. She could not bring him back. She stood there thinking of what might have been.

God also lost a Son.

He was placed in the heart of the earth, buried in a borrowed tomb. But, the grave could not hold Him. Her spirits lifted. The grave would not hold her son either. They would meet again. God had given them fifteen joyous years before the accident. Now, by the grace of God, she looked beyond this life and her sorrow turned to joy as she contemplated what was yet to be.

Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:1-3).

Do you have the hope of heaven?

Can you see beyond this vale of tears to the sunshine of God’s eternal city where all tears will be wiped away? Through Him we can live forever!