You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?
Then my enemies will turn back
in the day when I call.
This I know, that God is for me.
In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?– Psalm 56:8-11 (ESV)
Matthew Henry said of this passage, “God has a bottle and a book for his people’s tears, both the tears for their sins, and those for their afflictions. He observes them with tender concern.”
If the tears are flowing freely these days for you, I pray that you know that God counts them, every one, with tender concern. If you are his child, he is for you. In all your fears and trouble, there is hope. And that is real hope, not pablum, not Hallmark Card hope. It is hope that will not disappoint.
Bill: I know you posted this some days ago, but I still remember this because it touched my heart the morning I read it and has since printed it out. Keeping it with the many things I hold dear to my heart. You spoke words of the spirit this day.