There is no reason to dread what you know you have to face when you have God on your side. Peace and strength will come over you when you give the situation to God. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” ”Īre you afraid to sleep? Fear can creep in and enclose you – keeping you immobile, but God has a plan. Trust that God is With You Deuteronomy 31:6 “ Be strong and courageous. I pray that God grants you peace so you can sleep soundlessly and awaken with a renewed spirit ready to face the day ahead. Know that God will provide safety and strengthen you through each step ahead. Worry and fear can keep you awake at night and even consume your dreams. These tears will be turned into joy, and God will wipe them all away from the eyes of his people.Go to God for Strength Psalms 46:1 “ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. They are in his book of purposes they are all appointed by him, their kind and nature, their measure and duration, their quality and quantity what they shall be, and how long they shall last and their end and use: and they are in his book of providence, and are all overruled and caused to work for their good and they are in the book of his remembrance they are taken notice of and numbered by him, and shall be finished they shall not exceed their bounds. Verily they are that is, the tears and afflictions of his people. The meaning of the text is, that God would take notice of David's afflictions and troubles, which had caused so many tears, and remember them, and deliver him out of them: these being desired to be put into a bottle was, that they might be kept and reserved not to make atonement for sin for as a thousand rivers of oil cannot expiate one sin, could they be come at so neither as many rivers of brinish tears, could they possibly be shed: nor to obtain heaven and happiness for there is no comparison nor proportion between the sufferings of the saints and the glory that shall be revealed in them though there is a connection of grace through the promise of God between them: but rather, that they might be brought forth another day and shown, to the aggravation of the condemnation of wicked men, who by their hard speeches, and ungodly actions, have caused them Which shows, that they thought that reference is here had to funeral tears. ``whoever sheds tears for a good man (deceased) the holy blessed God numbers them, and puts them into his treasures, according to ( Psalms 56:8 ) '' 1544, in which were found two glass urns the larger had ashes in it, the lesser water: the one was supposed to contain his ashes, the other the tears of his friends: and as this was a custom with the Romans, something like this might obtain among the Jews and it is a saying with them , Tullius Cicero was dug up in the island of Zacynthus, A. A description of which is given by Gejerus F3, from Olaus Wormius and who also from Cotovicus relates, that the grave of M. The allusion is to "lachrymatories", or tear bottles, in which surviving relatives dropped their tears for their deceased friends, and buried them with their ashes, or in their urns some of which tear bottles are still to be seen in the cabinets of the curious. That is, the days of his pilgrimage and sojourning in this world: the number of our days, and months and years, in which we wander about in this uncertain state of things, is with the Lord, ( Job 14:5 ) ``thou numberest the days of my wandering '' Some writers reckon twelve of these moves. Not his sins though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments yet these are not told by the Lord: he takes no account of them the number of them is not kept by him they are blotted out, cast behind his back, and into the depths of the sea though sometimes his people think they are told and numbered by him, ( Job 14:16 ) ( 31:4 ) but David's moves and flights from place to place are meant, through Saul's pursuit of him, as a partridge on the mountains.
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