6:21b, 25b, "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh... Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep."
Just as our longings shall be met one day, so too shall our tears be dried, and we will no longer mourn for persecution, for opposition, for this world’s self-destructive sinfulness, for family and friends who do not believe, for personal sinfulness and perfection that is never attained. One day, we shall trade our tears for joyful laughter when we see our Bridegroom and enter His bountiful, beautiful kingdom. But those who laugh now, whose delight is aroused by sin and the transient pleasures it offers, who rejoice in the suffering of others and the breaking of God’s law–these will know mourning deeper than any human to this day has experienced. They who laughed for a lifetime (and that with its own shares of misery) will weep for an eternity. What a horrible fate!
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