Of Books and Bottles

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle.  Are they not in Your book? Psalms 56:8

Did you know God has books?  The prophet Malachi speaks of a book of remembrance (3:16).  There’s His book of our lives (Psalms 139:16), also the Lamb’s Book of Life (revelation 20:12). And the Psalmist tells us He keeps a book in which He records all our sufferings.

I know there are times we believe we have suffered and cried our tears in vain.  But God loves to show His compassion to us.  What a comfort to know the loved one lost to death, the betrayals, physical and verbal abuses, and add your own here, are always in His memory.  Every tear and tossing you’ve endured in the night or silent times are in the Lord’s mind.  He spoke to His own chosen, “See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands (Isaiah 49:16).  How many times a day do you look at your hands?

His thoughts are always to us, and when we weep those tears, He’s faithful to catch and keep each one.  He remembers your hardships, trials, and sufferings every time He opens your bottle or looks at His palms. And When you stand with Him there will no longer be the need for a bottle, for He will wipe away your every tear (Revelation 21:4).  Your name and times are constantly before Him. And He’s writing them down.

How gracious, loving, and compassionate He is.  There’s no work in experiencing that.  It’s all there and more.  All you need to do is believe it and embrace it.  No struggle.  It’s that easy.  Just reach out and accept it. Jesus loves me, this I know.  And His personal love for us is enough that He records and remembers every second.  Books and bottles.  What’s Better?

Ken