{"id":105,"date":"2019-09-30T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covenantmoravian.com\/index.php\/watchword-reflections\/monday-reflection-september-30-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:00:36","slug":"monday-reflection-september-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"watchword","link":"https:\/\/covenantmoravian.com\/index.php\/watchword-reflections\/monday-reflection-september-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Reflection \u2013 September 30, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monday Reflection  September 30, 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2SEjOlLJrLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><b>Tossings and Tears<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><b><i>You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record? Psalm 56:8\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tossings and tears are part of our journey at one stage in our lives or another. If we have lived long enough, we know that we experienced nights of toss and turns, restlessness, and even loss of sleep. Experiences in life have brought tears to our eyes and spirits as we face the ups and downs, the hills and valleys, the highpoints and low points of this journey. We have both tears of joy and those of sorrow. The loss of a loved one &#8211; whether by death, divorce or separation -, failures, anguish, fear, pain, hardships, trials, tribulations, stress and strains all threaten our happiness and joy and many times bring tossings and tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David can identify with us, for he had his fair share of tossings and tears. He faced lions, bears and Goliath with courage and strength. Indeed, he had a good heart, for he was described as a man after God\u2019s own heart. He was anointed the next king of Israel, yet what was to be a time of celebration for him, became his greatest nightmare. The reigning king Saul hunted him down to kill him. Today\u2019s text is said to be a description of David\u2019s appeal to God as he headed to the cave in Adullam to hide for his life. No doubt, he was alone, desperate and afraid.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here he reasons with and even challenges God. He draws to God\u2019s attention that God knows fully well the level and number of tossings that he has had. Indeed, God should bottle up his tears to see how much he has shed. All his hurt and pain should be recorded by God. It is as if he was saying to God that he has been through so much and his pain is so deep that it\u2019s time God relieves him of all of this. Yet, in all this we see David valuing\u00a0the sympathy and care of God all the more, and he found great comfort in the thought that God noted his misery.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David speaks about bottling his tears. For Spurgeon, \u201cHis sorrows were so many that there would need a great wine\u2013skin to hold them all.\u201d Yet, there\u00a0may be an allusion to a very ancient custom among\u00a0Greeks\u00a0and\u00a0Romans\u00a0of putting the tears which were shed for the death of any person into small phials and offering them on the tomb of the deceased.\u00a0There<i>\u00a0<\/i>are some persons who always have their tear-bottle with them, and who always treasure up every little grief and every little disappointment. Whenever you meet them, the first thing you see is the tear-bottle; and there is more in it than there was last time. Note that I am not speaking of those who have great trials and must shed tears, but of those who make a great deal of every little thing. We ought not to live in this gloomy way. In the midst of David\u2019s trial, he\u00a0affirms his confidence in God and declares in verse 9, \u201c<b>This I know, because God is for me\u201d.<\/b>\u00a0His tossings and tears do not mean that God was against him. Instead he knew that God was\u00a0for him, and would answer his prayer for rescue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What of your tossings and tears? Surrender it all to God and rise in resolute confidence to face whatever life brings our way. Indeed, tears are a language God understands.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div>Jermaine Gibson<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embed]https:\/\/youtu.be\/2SEjOlLJrLk[\/embed] Tossings and Tears You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record? 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