The Tear Bottle
Thou tellest my wanderings: put
thou my tears into thy bottle: are they
not in thy book? Psalms 56:8 (KJV)
There was no rain in Adam’s Day, but just a mist of
Dew.
No drops of water bathed the earth, or marred the
Garden view.
The first moist drop of water fell before that ugly
tree -
It was a tear from Adam’s eye when God he could not
see.
The tears of man have fallen since in trials and
hurt and sorrow,
But God will count them one by one and keep them in
His bottle.
The woman laden down with sin who came to Christ at
Supper,
Bathed His feet with bottled tears for all that she
did suffer.
No longer needed were those tears of sin that ever
plagued her,
She now gave all those tears to Christ – the best
she had to offer.
That bottle that once held her tears now held her
faith’s devotion.
No lid would hold her love in check - her love
became an ocean.
If we will give our tears to Christ, there is no
point in weeping,
For in His Bottle Christ will keep our tears for
future healing.
The humble maiden, flushed with shame, gave all her
heart was able.
And you and I may do the same when supping at His
Table.
©2014 Jerry L. Ogles
