Jesus is preparing the disciples for His departure. In a little while He will ascend to His Father. What Jesus is telling them sounds very interesting. “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” The world didn’t accept the Son of God; the world rejected Him. So now when Jesus is ready to depart, He warns His friends that they will grieve and miss Him, but the world will rejoice. Isn’t it similar today? Many in this world don’t want to talk about God, they don’t want to hear about Jesus, they don’t want to follow any commandments, and so they rejoice if nobody is telling them about religion, morality, forgiveness, peace, or love. And at the same time it is very difficult for us Christians to spread that Good News. Many times, we will be rejected for that, we will grieve, we will be sad. However, Jesus is promising us that one day our grief and sadness will be turned into joy. A joy that will never end. “When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.”
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