Empathy for the Groom
4/7/2025
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (Romans 12:15)
Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it. (Ezekiel 9:4)
Empathy is the projection of one’s own personality into the personality of another in order to understand the person better; ability to share in another’s emotions, thoughts, or feelings. (Webster Dictionary)
How dare I long for “happiness”
When my Friend is so brokenhearted
How can I pine for comfort now
When His pain's not departed?
Will I nurse my “so-called” wounds
Or join His aching grief?
Can I embrace His anguish sore
And shun my own relief?
To be His close and trusted friend
I must empathize and relate
To requite His selfless, endless love
I want to share His state
Jesus weeps
He weeps
He’s angry and He weeps
Not for a friend in tomb’s empty dark
But for a bride after His heart
Where is this equal spotless mate
of holiness and light?
When will she with strength arise
and stand for all that’s right?
For He gave His life to buy her back
When she was drowning in her blood
Cleansed her white and made her whole
And saved her from sin’s mud
But she makes His name a mockery
Her idols her chief pursuit
She spurns His grace of infinite cost
By trampling His blood underfoot
And Jesus weeps still
He weeps
He’s angry and He weeps
Not for Himself, as one might presume
But for this bride, to be just like Her Groom
So I will love only what He loves
And hate all that He hates
I will embody His passion’s fire
And magnify His traits
Until His Weeping turns to Dancing
And His Anger turns to Laughter
On the Day the Groom is fin’ly United
To His Bride forever after
And while that Day seems so far off
I ponder the wait for Him
Fighting daily for His Dream
Never letting my light dim
I weep
As He weeps
I’m angry and I weep
Not for my earthly wants and needs
But for His Bride to express
Boundless faith and love's deeds
The "Mark of Life"
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