09/06/2025
Ecclesiastes 7:3 "Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face, the heart is made better."
It's sounds paradoxical to what the world believes right?
Because the world always says, “Dont give up, smile, cheer up, Move on, Don’t let them see you cry.”
But when it comes to the Word of God it says, “Come broken, come burdened, come honest.”
Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Laughter might let us feel good in the moment, but sorrow does something that laughter never could.
It doesn’t stay on the surface, it sinks and reaches the parts of you that you didn’t even know were aching.
It breaks open what’s been buried, and gives God room to heal what’s real.
Even Jesus Himself wept.
Not because He lacked faith, but because He loved deeply. (John 11:35)
Sorrow is the sound of a heart that cares, a heart that is not sleeping, a heart that still continue to beat.
We serve a Savior who doesn’t run from pain, He faces it, and take our griefs and carried our sorrows. (Isaiah 53:4)
Sorrow doesn't separate you from God. Sometimes, when we are at our lowest, He is sitting right beside us.
Laughter is great—yes it's true.
But sorrow?
It heals, sanctifies and refines, it humbles the proud, and awakens a cry that heaven always hears.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
You will not be ignored and dismissed, you shall be comforted by God.
If you are crying right now, don’t rush to dry your eyes.
Let sorrow do its holy work.
Let it tend the ground of your heart, because God grows things in the soil of sorrow that joy alone can't plant.
✍️ Caelum
