Joy - Advent - Day 17 - Week 3

John 16:20-22

I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

Words from a Man who knew He was going to die. He wanted us to know that we had something more to look forward to than this world. He wanted us to know that there is a time in our future when pain and grief will no longer exist and won't exist for us again. On a TV show I watched recently one of the characters was talking about a time when she had terrible poison ivy where it even hurt to be touched or to scratch. Her mother just told her that every time it burned or hurt... that very second... she was one heartbeat closer to the time when it wouldn't hurt anymore. She said "Hold On... This won't last forever."   

Hold on... This won't last forever.