God will wipe away our tears

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples,
the veil that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death forever;

and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,

and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day,
"Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation." (Isaiah 25:6-9 ESV)

And again this is promised in the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
(Revelation 7:17 ESV)

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away." (Revelation 21:1-4 ESV)

People often question God and Christianity around this concern of suffering. Really the answer we want is that God will take away our suffering now, which he doesn't always or even often do. The ultimate answer from these scriptures of suffering is that in this life we suffer but in the life to come there will be no suffering and we will be healed as God himself takes the pain of our suffering in this life.

We may still ask why there is suffering and most answers are not satisfying. Sometimes Christians say it is all because of sin and most of it probably is. But I think my answer is we don't know or understand. Like Job found out the hard way God is who he is and he does what he has planned. And we don't always like the plan and that pain God let's us go through.

So he question is:
Do you believe God is good?
If yes then:
Do you trust God to know better than you what is truly good?

I admit I haven't experienced much suffering in my life. Sometimes it makes me mad and sad or try to work harder because it is so unfair.

Yet I think the example in the bible of what to do in suffering is to walk with Jesus in the suffering. Jesus became human and suffered with us. I think if how Jesus suffered as his friend Lazarus died. Jesus knew he could and would raise Lazarus from the dead and yet he mourned. Jesus knew the plan of God through the cross and yet asked that the cup of the wrath of God might be passed from him. Jesus knows suffering.

And that is far more beautiful:
Jesus the Son of God - the Word
Suffered alongside us and suffered for us.
In that I hope!

Because Jesus was also raised up and is seated at the right hand of the father in heaven our future home where he will wipe away every tear.
Praise be to God
Amen