Emotions ( John 15 v 12 )

The Pastor of our church in one of his messages spoke about the importance of being authentic, meaning not false or copied.It is hard to be authentic ,in other to be ones self,there was a famous preacher in Northern Ireland ,he had one of the largest Bible classes in the country,his name was Willie Mullen,there were many when preaching mainly young, tried to imitate him,so it was said there were a lot of Willie Mullens running about.When I am preaching I try just to be myself,recently while leading the church in prayer I was very emotional,for I prayed for a couple in the church whose son had died,but by God's grace I got through the prayer.We cannot always keep our emotions bottled up, nor should we,our Saviour wept outside the  tomb of a man called  Lazarus who had died.(John 11 v 35) The word of God says we are to weep with those who weep(Romans 12 v15),and even weep for those who weep, after all our fellow Christians are our family,the hymn writer puts it like this.

                                                      'We share our mutual woes;

                                                       Our mutual burdens bear; ( Words John Fawcett)

Sorrow is a heavy burden to bear,tears flow,words are so inadequate,so let us bear each others burdens even the burden of sorrow and in so doing we are fulfilling the law of Christ,showing love. (Galatians 6 v 2)