All Our Tears

“For the wicked man glories in his greed, ​and the covetous blasphemes, sets the Lord at nought. The wicked man boasts, “He will not avenge it”; ​“There is no God,” sums up his thoughts.” Psalm 10:3-4

Martin Luther said of this psalm, “There is not, in my judgment, a Psalm which describes the mind, the manners, the works, the words, the feelings, and the fate of the ungodly with so much propriety, fullness, and light, as this Psalm.” 

We can witness all around us the works of those men who think there is no god, or if they believe there is a god, they believe in a god “who will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.” And those who persevere to do good may lament “Why, O Lord, do you stand aloof? ​Why hide in times of distress?”

Does the Lord stand aloof when the wicked wreak havoc in this world? We must always remember that our stay in this world is a “blink of an eye” compared to where we really belong. Even Jesus, when He was here on earth amongst men, did not escape the wrath and machinations of the greedy, and the wicked. He could have annihilated all who stood in His way. He did not have to submit Himself to the humiliations He suffered! 

“Jesus who is Justice himself came to overcome injustice by becoming a victim Himself. He submitted himself to the same sort of treatment that the poor suffered,” I read in “The Anawim Way”. The Lord declares in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” 

What this boils down to is we need to trust in the Lord, in His infinite wisdom. He is just, and faithful, and forgiving. He never forgets. It says in Psalm 56:8, He keeps track of all our sorrows. He collects all our tears in His bottle. He records each one in His book! One day, we will know our Father, really KNOW Him, and we will see how amazingly intricate was His plan for our life. The same way that the universe is so finely tuned to make the earth liveable for humans, God crafts our life so uniquely for us to bloom and grow. Our sorrows, challenges, joys and pains, are not coincidences or accidents, but are planned meticulously by a loving God who only wants the best for us.