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| Sometimes weeping is right when others rejoice. |
It's hard to rebuild something. There are times you can never put things back the way they were. This is the case here is chapter 3:8-13. The people who had never seen the glory of the temple of old were excited, but those who saw how much difference there was found themselves weeping over what was lost.
Are either of these groups wrong? No.
For the people who had never seen the previous temple, the excitement of being able to worship God in a temple was something to celebrate and it should have been. For those who had seen what was lost, was it wrong to weep? No, the people of Israel needed to weep because it was there generation which had lost the temple, they needed to grieve. There was a need to remember why they had lost the great temple of Solomon.
The lesson for us is to realize that there are times when people see events from a different perspective and neither are wrong or ungodly. Give grace to those who weep when you are rejoicing or those who are rejoicing while you are weeping.
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