Tears are part and parcel of the human condition. In describing life’s seasons, Solomon poignantly shared with all of us in Ecclesiastes 3:4 that there is “a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.” Since the time of Eden, since the beginning, the history of humanity has been a “trail of tears.” In fact, the Bible can be called, along with its many other titles, a “book of tears.” It is after all the divine diary of all shed tears—not merely man-made tears, but tears shed by God.

God will wipe away every tear

But the good news is that your Bible reveals an incredible prophetic promise about a future time when things will be dramatically different from anything that exists now or ever has. It is a promise from our heavenly Father that ultimately must become more real than any human premise that touches us—be it past, present or future.