“Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice;
and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman,
when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come;
but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish,
for joy that a human being has been born into the world.” (John 16:20–21)
The joy of the resurrection has swallowed up the sorrow of the cross.
It means that although one may shed tears for the joy of a baby being born,
she does not weep because of the pain of childbirth.
I, too, have children, yet I do not cry remembering the pain of labor.
The same is true for everyone on this earth who has experienced childbirth.
Father God, who said that our sorrow would be turned into joy,
has taken away sin through the resurrection.
“Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David,
was raised from the dead according to my gospel.” (2 Timothy 2:8)
The everlasting Father, the LORD God who created the world,
came in the lineage of David and swallowed up the sins and death of His children through the resurrection. Hallelujah!
“As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured,
so will I multiply the descendants of My servant David
and the Levites who minister to Me,” says the LORD. (Jeremiah 33:22)