Today's Daily Lesson comes from Romans chapter 12 verse 15:
Several years ago at Wednesday night church a woman announced that her husband had been cleared of a terminal diagnosis he received just months before. He had been misdiagnosed, his symptoms were treatable, and he would die with his actual condition and not because of it.
Those present there that night erupted into a hearty thanksgiving, including joyous applause from the wife's best friend who I remember breaking out in a huge, and genuine smile -- and then tears of joy.
What made that moment so memorable for me was the fact that the best friend also had a husband who had been diagnosed with a likely terminal illness and they had not received nearly so good a news. Yet, the tears were genuine joy.
There's all kinds of things happening around us. Good news and bad. Someone just got their dream job, another is awaiting test results for their nephew, somebody's grandson just got kicked out of the military, while another grandson by another child was just accepted into Stanford with a full ride.
Let us rejoice with those who rejoice. And let us weep with those who weep. And let us rejoice and weep a wet tear at the same time.
God does. I am sure.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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