The Value of Your Tears

This is one of the most touching images in all of Scripture. David asks God to keep his tears in a bottle — like a precious treasure. And he asks: are they not recorded in Your book?

God keeps your tears. He doesn't let them fall to the ground and disappear. He doesn't consider them an overreaction or a weakness. He collects them, records them, knows each one by name.

Every tear you've cried in solitude — in the bathroom, under the covers, on the way to work — was seen. It was kept. It has a name and an address in God's record.

That doesn't make the pain disappear, but it changes what it means. Your pain is not invisible. You didn't suffer in vain and in silence. The God of the universe saw every moment, every tear, every difficult night. And He keeps them.