![]() "Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?" (Psa 56:8). God's compassion and watchcare is tender and motherly. When the Psalmist says, "Thou tellest my wanderings," he is not saying, merely, that God knows about them intellectually and counts them as a matter of fact; he is saying that God is intimately involved in every step of the saint's life. In the context, David refers to his wanderings to escape Saul. When he wrote Psalm 56, David was in Gath among the Philistines, who also were his enemies. By the spirit of prophecy, David was expressing in this Psalm his confidence in God's intimate watchcare through all of his wanderings and troubles. We think of the trials and wanderings of Abraham, of Joseph, of Moses, of the children of Israel in the wilderness, of Job, and of Paul. All of them could say, "God tellest my wanderings." Likewise, God counts the wanderings and knows the tears of every saint. They are even recorded in His book! (Friday Church News Notes, November 8, 2013, www.wayoflife.org [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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