Poetry Thursday

This is another by Ruth Bell Graham

Jesus wept.

But why?

Knowing what lay ahead

moments away........

Was it becuase

He had not come ,

when He heard

Lazarus might die?

Lazarus was dead!

Was it in sympathy

with their raw grief,

faith's impotent lack?

Or could it be

because He 

had to  bring Him back?

I had never thought of this as a reason why Jesus would cry in the story of Lazarus.  Maybe it was a combination of all those things, but I am sure it hurt him terribly to have to bring him back to live in this world.