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Originally Posted by aron
Once I was singing ... and at some point was singing and was overcome by a presence that caused me to begin to sob as tears poured down my face.
At that moment, I could "hear" Jesus ....
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As previously noted, crying in the Bible doesn't guarantee a reward at the finish line. And it doesn't mean one's experience is more valid than someone who isn't crying. But I note that the weeping and lingering Mary saw the angels, and Peter and John merely saw the empty tomb, and then left. WL did us all a disservice by telling us, "move along, move along; nothing to see here." That was not for him to say - did he weep there, lingering, before he told us the tomb(psalm) was empty, and there was nothing to see?
Obviously my posts have not opened up the Psalms, either. I simply related, for example, an impression from Psalm 3. But my experience tells me there may be more, and not only there but also in Psalms 4,5,6,7,9,10,11, etc. And I'm glad to have been extricated from the thinking injected by WL: what I had thought was a "high peak" vision was the equivalent of viewing Peter's empty tomb. It might be factually correct at some level, and may satisfy the 'expert' theologians with its orthodox appearance, but it wasn't going to lead me to experience what God has intended. I guess that's why God gave us the scriptures, anyway; as they say, "Accept no substitute".