Rev 5:1-10 / Luke 19:41-44
Tears are words that the heart can't say.
Tears can be how our heart speaks when our lips cannot describe how much we have been hurt.
Or tears can be how our heart feels when we are grieved and sorrowed beyond description.
In the 1st reading, the writer, John, wept bitterly because no one was able to open and read the scroll that was in the hand of the One sitting on the throne.
The scroll represented the secret purposes of God that are to be revealed to the Church in times of persecution and distress.
These secrets and revelations are certainly desirable to be known but as no one could open and read it, hence John wept bitterly.
But he was consoled by an elder that the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, the Lamb who was sacrificed will be able to open and read that scroll and reveal it to the Church.
And yet when this same Jesus who shed tears when His people did not listen to what He said and by their own stubbornness it was hidden from them.
God would not hide His plans for us and make us cry tears of distress and confusion.
But let us also remember that Jesus had shed tears over His people because they refused to listen.
Let us listen to Jesus and He will wipe away the tears from our eyes.