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Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice.

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You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy."

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John 16, 20.

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In John 16, Jesus is telling his disciples about what is going to happen.

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He's preparing them for his crucifixion, and he tells them, you won't see me, but then

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you will see me again.

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And this is not just about him telling them about his dying and his coming back.

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I think it's even greater than that.

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What he's saying is, when I come back, you're going to really see me.

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You're going to wake up to something.

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You're going to become fully aware of who I am and what I have done.

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And you're going to know and experience our inseparable union.

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And I'm going to be to you what I've always been, but you're going to recognize it.

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And in recognizing me, you're going to recognize yourself as a child of God, as a new creation.

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But notice, Jesus doesn't skip over the sorrow to get to the joy.

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He acknowledges it.

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He names it.

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He says, you will grieve.

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And he sits in the reality of what's coming before he jumps into the promise over it.

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That's not weakness.

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That's not lacking faith.

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That's what it looks like to be fully alive as a whole person.

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Emotional health and spiritual maturity are not separate tracks.

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A new creation doesn't bypass sorrow to prove that they have enough faith.

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A new creation being can sit in the sorrow, honestly, because their identity in Christ

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is secure enough to hold it.

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You can grieve and still know who you are.

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You can feel the weight of something hard and still be seated in heavenly places with

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Christ, processing what you feel, getting help when you need it, bringing your whole

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self to God.

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That's not a detour from your life in Christ.

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What is your life in Christ lived out in this world?

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As daughters of God, we don't pretend the hard things aren't hard.

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We bring them to the Father who already knows and who loves us fully.

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And from that place of honesty and union with him, sorrow will turn to joy.

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Not because we skipped the sorrow, but because we walked through it with him.