Gods Tear Bottle by Glyn Evans I am comforted when I realize that God is not a vast computer, but a feeling, emotional person, a grander image of myself. He loves, hates, pities, and sympathizes. Nothing proves His large heart of sympathy more than Davids words, Put my tears in Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book? (Psalm 56:8). God has a personal tear bottle for every one of His children; therefore, there is no sorrow He does not notice and no tear He does not record. Sometimes I weep in public and sometimes in private, but private or public, God catches my falling tears and saves them. Why does God collect my tears and note my sorrows? I can come to only one conclusion - He is saving them for some tomorrow. There must be a day in the future when God will stop collecting my sorrows and start rewarding me for them. My suffering has a purpose. The tear bottle is the measuring bottle; notched along the sides are marks to indicate how full and complete my suffering has been. How full is my personal tear bottle, now resting in the Lords hands? It may never be as full as that of Jeremiah, who wondered if any sorrow [was] like unto [his] sorrow (Lamentations 1:12, KJV); or like that of Paul, who gloried in his sufferings for Christs sake (2 Corinthians 11:18, 23); and certainly not like that of Christ, whose tear bottle was big enough to hold the tears of the whole world. Do I weep over my own sins as Job did? Have I broken my heart over the hardness of men as Ezekiel did? One day God will give me back my tear bottle - whether full or only partly so - and then I will have the privilege of doing what the woman did: pouring it over the feet of Him who both collects and rewards my tears (Luke 7:36-38). Then He will wipe away all tears from my eyes forever (Revelation 21:4). The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy (Zephaniah 3:17).
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:26:52 +0000
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