Do Christians cry?

  Every human being is wired with emotions by God that no matter how strong a person is, when a situation warrants crying hit the person so hard, he will cry. So, it is not meant only just for Christians to cry but for every human being. But, a Christian cries for two reasons, which are:

•  A cry through brokenness 

   A thirteen-year-old Emma graduated from elementary school with so much excitement because it has always been his dream to go to high school. After all, he wants to have an experience of all or, if possible, most of the things his sister told him about high school. Unfortunately, due to his family's financial distress made his dream almost impossible for him. He had no choice but to stay back at home while his mates were in school but was hoping for the day his parents would raise money to send him back to school, he waited for days to weeks and months but nothing happened. 

  But on one faithful Friday evening, he was so heartbroken that the only place he thought of going was the church, and was the very first day he seriously prayed all his life. He cried and asked God for help, and then went back home after his prayers. To his greatest surprise, his sister came home that same Friday from school with the news that her school management wanted him in their school without paying any dime due to her outstanding performance in school. 

  That a Christian cries is not a sign of weakness but a sign of submission to God when every human effort fails, and the only alternative is to pour his heart before God for His intervention. Matthew 11:28  Many Christians are so comfortable in whatever circumstances they are in. Is it, not God that said in Isaiah 62:1, for Zion's sake they should not keep silent but always remind Him of His promises till the answer is given to them? Then if I may ask, why are Christians silent and lazy to seek the face of God in the place of prayer through brokenness? 

  Emma was troubled and might felt deprived of what should be said to be his right, but the fact he did nothing for months made God do nothing too, and until he became so uncomfortable and tired of his hindrance and sought God’s help, God immediately came through for him. Thus, there are difficult situations or problems that most Christians are going through. The ones who are comfortable managing problems remain in the struggle of hoping for when God will help them solve their problems, while the ones who are tired and uncomfortable with managing problems cry to God with their broken hearts are the ones He will instantly show mercy upon. Psalm 34:18; Psalm 51:17

  In 1 Samuel 1-20, Hannah was not comfortable with her problem, but she did nothing other than weep until the day she was provoked into personally seeking God’s face in the temple by her cowife. She needed no one to escort her to pray, and with her brokenness, she received an immediate answer from God. 

   David and his men wept with so much brokenness when they got back home to find out that their enemies had invaded their homes,  burned their city, and taken their wives and children as captives in 1 Samuel 30:1-8. Because of their brokenness, God assured them of complete recovery.

  What about the brokenness of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4:10? He was going through the pain of his mother's curse but was not bothered so much to seek God's face until the day he completely got tired of his problem and with brokenness sought God and instantly got an answer that changed his condition.

  My question to you my dear reader is, when will you be so uncomfortable with that problem of yours to seek God's face in the place of prayer?  Sometimes, your silence to those problems makes people question your stand in God because they know God is ever capable of delivering His own, but in your case why has He not intervened? I strongly believe that your inconsistency in the place of prayer delays His visitation in your life.

  The case of the blind Bartimaeus should also be a lesson to Christians because immediately he heard it was Jesus of Nazareth that was passing by, he used his voice since the problem of his eyes could not allow him. Mind you, people wanted to shut him up by giving him money for him to remain calm and comfortable with his blindness but he refused because he knew Jesus was the only solution to whatever he was going through. And when he got Christ's attention to himself, He still asked him, "What did you want me to do for you?" Jesus knew he was blind but Bartimaeus needed to say it to show how uncomfortable he was with his problem. Mark 10:46-52

  Some circumstances need God’s immediate intervention, and brokenness in the place of prayer is mostly the key to drawing God's attention to attend to those problems. So, a lot of challenges or difficulties can make a Christian cry, but the best place to cry out the pain is no other place than in the presence of God. In His presence be rest assured that He will never forsake thee. Deuteronomy 31:6

• A cry of joy

   Tears of joy in times of unimaginable testimony happen in a person's life at a period when the person was not expecting it. A time when all hope is lost after all the series of pain and suffering, and finally, God comes through for him. 

  I have witnessed some Christians severally testifying in tears that, "they do not know how God did it or the way He did, but He did without wasting time".  The problem is a very hard one to handle because God has not gotten involved in it. No matter the cloud of darkness accompanying that problem, when God gets involved the problem vanishes with its darkness for joy to take over in the morning. Psalms 50:5

  It was tears of joy to the children of Isreal when God mightily delivered them from the hands of the pharaoh. Right in front of them, their darkness of slavery, starvation, and constant pain was swallowed in victory. Exodus 15:4

  To every Christian who in one way or the other going through hard times that might have them cry but have no one to help out, the fact such kind of Christians still steadfastly remain in God, God will come through for His own and the tears will He turn to joy.