Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. (Romans 12:15)Again, it is the community of the church that makes us strong. We share with each other both joy and sorrow, up and down, good and bad when we are happy, church is the place that we should be able to share our joy.
And when we are sad, church is the place where we go for comfort. That is the plan God had for his people when they meet together.
It could be that way if you would begin to make it so. If we decided to help each other and support each other, what a difference we could make in life, in the lives of others, in the life of our country and our culture and our world.
Misery loves company. That is true. But mainly people hate to be sad alone. They want someone to share with them, to help them, to lift them up from where they are and put them into a better place, to make them happy.
Of course, some people we cannot make happy. They are professional sad people. But the church should do it level best to ameliorate the problems people have, to modify behavior in a positive way.
One of the best ways to do that, of course, is just to sit and commiserate with those who are in pain. Sitting quietly with someone who is sad is the best way. You don’t have the answers and they know it, but you can just be a friend.
Just being a friend is what matters. We need friends that will just sit with us and love us anyway.
And that is what the church is for.
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