“The valley of Baca” means “the valley of weeping.” Most people feel that tears are a sign of weakness, not of strength. But “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” So God uses weeping and tears in the lives of His people to cause them to “go from strength to strength.” “His anger endureth but a moment; in His favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning,” and “though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” Like Paul, we hear Him say to us by His Word that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” And with Paul let us answer, “Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” “Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee.” Such “go from strength to strength.” And, beholding in the Word “the glory of the Lord,” they “are changed into the same image from glory to glory.”
God uses tears in His people
To cleanse their spiritual sight,
That they may behold His glory
And live lives filled with His might.
Isa. 55:8-9; Psa. 30:5; Lam. 3:32-33; 2 Cor. 12:9; 3:18.