I Have Seen Your Tears

I have seen your tears - 2 Kings 20:5.

God sees our tears

God saw the tears of Hannah and answered her prayer

In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.  So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.” - 1 Samuel 1:10,20. 

God saw the tears of Hezekiah and heard his prayer

Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord - 2 Kings 20:3, 5.

God stores our tears

David says that God keeps track of our wanderings, stores our tears in His bottle and hears the voice of our weeping.

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

I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord has heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer. Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled; Let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly - Psalm 6:6-10.

God wipes away every tear from our eyes and turns our weeping into Joy

God will wipe away every tear from their eyes - Revelation 21:4.

Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy - John 16:20.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning - Psalm 30:5.

                    Let us thank God who sees, stores and wipes away every tear of us and turns our weeping into joy.   Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them - Psalm 126:6. You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living - Psalm 116:8–9.

                                                                                         

PRAYER: Dear Lord, You have seen, stored and wiped away every tear of us. We thank You for turning our weeping into joy. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.