MOVED TO TEARS
“Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to Hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.”
Jer 9:1 Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
We read here of the brokenheartedness of the weeping prophet, Jeremiah. He was crushed over the judgment against the people of God. Lam 1:12(a) "[Is it] nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow… The compassion of God had moved Jeremiah to tears.
A story is told of William Booth, who is quoted above, of two of his lady workers who had labored in a very impoverished community for two years with no visible results. They wrote Gen. Booth and asked to be reassigned to another location. *Booth sent a telegram back with two words: “Try tears.” They did and they saw real revival come. Those girls went to travailing prayer, not just prayer, but travailing prayer, prayer with anguish in it. The road to revival is often paved with tears and brokenness. (*told by Leonard Ravenhill)
Though the harvest is truly plenteous and the laborers are few, if there is anything we need perhaps, even more than sent preachers, is broken weepers (intercessors) for lost souls!
Friend, are you willing to be moved to tears for the salvation of souls?
Every blessing!
—Tom