Tears

 

You have kept count of my tossings;

You put my tears in your bottle.

Are they not in your book? (Psalm 56:8). 

 

God sees our tears, even those that fall inside. He keeps them and remembers them forever. 

 

How did David know that God is so inclined? The way you and I know. By looking at his face as it’s mirrored in his Word:  

 

I trust in God (Elohim), thanks to his Word; 

I trust in the LORD (Yahweh), thanks to his Word (56:11). 

 

How do I know God cares? By "his Word."

 

It’s striking that the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament, with remarkable prescience, anticipated the New Testament revelation and translated the second “Word” as “Logos,” the Apostle John’s word for Jesus. Thus we see what God is like in both his written and incarnate Word![1]

 

How do I know God cares? By the tears in my Savior’s eyes (John 11:35).

 

George MacDonald wrote,

 

“If ever we get hungry to see God, we must look at his picture.”

“Where is that, sir?”

“Ah, Davie, don’t you know that besides being himself, and just because he is himself, Jesus is the living picture of God?”

 

David Roper

9.12.21

[1] “ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ αἰνέσω ῥῆμα ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ αἰνέσω λόγον” (Psalms 57 [56]:11).

 

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