GOD keeps a tear-bottle!
(J.R. Miller, "Evening Thoughts" 1907)
have collected all my tears in YOUR bottle.
YOU have recorded each one in YOUR book!"
Psalm 56:8
Tears are sacred in GOD'S sight.
The Psalmist said that God keeps
a tear-bottle, into which HE puts
the tears of HIS people.
This means that GOD in Heaven hears
the plashing of earth's tears. It means
that HIS people's sorrows are sacred
to HIM, that HE cherishes them,
keeping them as memorials.
Our tears are precious to GOD, also,
because in our sorrow HE brings to us
blessings which we never could
receive but for our sorrow.
One of our LORD'S Beatitudes
is for the sorrowing:
(Matthew 5:4)
It seems strange to us that mourning
ones should be put among the blessed
or happy ones. The reason is, because
only those who suffer can get GOD'S
comfort, and this is such a blessing
that it is worth while to have sorrow
just to receive it.
GOD holds the tears of penitence
as most sacred. Those who weep
over their sins, cause joy in Heaven.
life in that town learned that JESUS
was eating at the Pharisee's house,
she brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
and as she stood behind HIM at HIM
feet weeping, she began to wet HIS
feet with her tears. Then she wiped
them with her hair, kissed them and
poured perfume on them!" Luke 7:37-38
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