put my tears in Your bottle

8 days ago I sent Psalm 56 to Philip.  8 days ago I didn't know that in the week ahead we would come face-to-face with multiple overwhelming back-to-back disappointments and tragedy.  This truth is the same as it was 8 days ago. Gift 13: The God who was faithful when this was written two thousand years ago is still unchanged today.

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker opresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.  What can flesh do to me?

All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.  They stir up srive, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.  For their crime will they escape?  In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle.  Are they not in your book?

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call.  This I know, that God is for me.

In God, whose work I praise, in the LORD whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.  What can man do to me?

I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.

For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God, in the light of life. 
   

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