There is not much more that should or could be said about this song in our second lesson. These are compelling images. A God who wants to wipe away every tear from our eyes is a God who you’ll want to love. He’s a God who makes life a lot easier to live.

If we read these words in light of our whole text for the second lesson, in light of the whole book of Revelation, then the idea of God wiping away tears from our eyes becomes even more comforting. For this is a word of comfort about the whole universe. The text reads:

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. (v.1) 

Beautiful, powerful images. But what does it have to do with us, living early in the twenty-first century?

A 2016 Harris poll found that two in three of us are not v…