When Jesus went to call Lazarus back from the grave......HE WEPT. Some have wondered why he wept. The Jews must have thought it was from sorrow, because they said, "Behold how He loved him" (John 11:36). Yet we wonder why he wept, if he was going to call him back to life?
Maybe Jesus wasn't weeping because Lazarus died.
Some have fancied that Jesus wept because, for his present purposes, it was necessary to call Lazarus back from the joys of Heaven! Jesus knew what Lazarus was leaving and the sacrifice it would be to come back to this sinful world. Jesus had made that very journey Himself and He understood.
When we mourn for our loved ones who have passed, it is peace to our breaking hearts to remember that they are with Christ. We will see them again in Glory because Christians never say goodbye for the last time because of Jesus. They will never be sick again. They will never hurt again. They will never have another surgery again. There will be no more cancer, death, disease or Devil! They will experience the glory of God, the streets of gold, the angels around the throne of God and the family of God gathered together from the centuries. What a day that will be!
To ask our loved one to come back like Lazarus to this painful life......would cause us to weep. too.