You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help. This I know: God is on my side!
Is there a more beautiful illustration of the Lord’s great tenderness and His gracious mercies towards each of His children, to you and to me, than is seen in the intimacy that is glimpsed in these verses? For we read that the Lord takes account of all our sadness and all our pain. All our weariness and all our wanderings. All the salty teardrops that flow from our eyes and all the silent groans that rend the inner parts of our secret being. Indeed, we read in these precious verses that He has collected every single teardrop that has wet our lashes and recorded every single silent groan of our hurting heart. He has placed each single tear in His bottle of remembrance and recorded each hurt in His book, because of His great love for each of His own. Remember, He has scheduled every day of our lives and knows the tears that will result from the afflictions of His people. Our times are in His hands and we have a God Who knows and loves and cares for everything that causes His children pain. And even in these times of deep sadness and distress, we can, like our Saviour, gain a closer intimacy with our Father through the things that we suffer in obedience to His will. And the wonderful thing is that, through it, we will gain a closeness to His heart of love and a depth of understanding of our God that we never imagined possible. For God has promised that the day is coming when sorrow will be turned into joy and tears will be turned into laughter. A day when He Himself will wipe away every wet tear from our eyes. No matter what we face or where we are, God always fights with us. Even in silence, He is still making ways for us. We may not realize what He is doing for now, but one day, we will understand. We can always trust that God is working things out for our good and for His glory. He will give us strength when we think we can’t go on. He will give us joy when we feel discouraged. He will make a way when it looks impossible. Just hold on, for God is always with us.
Spiritual Steve 