“The next privilege of being with Christ is joy.
This joy of the saints proceeds from union; when our union with Christ is perfect, then our joy shall be full:
‘And God shall wipe away all tears, and there shall be no more sorrow.’ (Rev. 21:4)
There shall be no weeping. Jesus Christ hath provided a handkerchief to wipe off the tears of the saints.
Heaven would not be heaven if there were weeping there. Hell indeed is called a place of weeping. They that would not shed a tear for their sins while they lived, shall have weeping enough.
But we never read of weeping in heaven. Christ will take down our harps from the willows. There he will call for his heralds and trumpeters: the angels, those blessed choiristers, shall sing the divine anthems of praise, and the saints shall join in that heavenly concert.
If it were possible that any tears could be shed when we are with Christ, they should be the tears of joy, as sometimes we have seen a man weep for excessive joy.
Christ will turn all our water there into wine.”
-Thomas Watson, “The Christian’s Charter of Privileges,” in Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects, Being the Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, vol. 1 (Edinburgh; Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co.; A. Fullarton & Co., 1829), 1: 41.
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