Advent(Dec. 4): God's Tears
The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart. And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” But Noah found favor with the Lord Genesis 6:5-8 "God looked at all the hearts leaning away from Him - "His heart was filled with pain" is how God felt when He looked around and saw everyone sinning and leaning and hurting. God's tears fell like a flood." His heart hurts not just with a few teardrops of ache, not just with a slow drip of a bit of sadness - no, the whole gigantic enormity of God's...