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Psalm 56:8 speaks of tears being collected in a bottle and of God keeping a record of the tears we’ve shed in this life. From the days of the Psalter, about one thousand years before the time of Jesus, some Jewish women took this passage to heart and carried in their possessions a—a tear jar to use in their worship times. The lacrimal duct in our bodies produces our tears.
In Psalm 56 God gives value to our tears. He tells us He sees every hurt and every sorrow. He tells us He holds our hearts in it all; He walks through it with us. He will bring joy eventually and eternally. In a similar way, thegives value to tears. They are precious to God. They are worth recognizing, and they are worth keeping. They are worth storing up because of the One who can handle all our tears. The One who can hold all of our sadness, grief, sorrow, hurt, and pain can handle it.
It’s possible the woman in Luke 7 brought two jars to the dinner with Jesus at the home of Simon the Pharisee—two jars for two very different reasons. I think she brought an alabaster jar of expensive perfume to anoint Jesus and a tear jar to pour out her sorrows to Him. In this act of worship, it seems she was recognizing Jesus’ deity, pouring out her tears to Him—the tears Psalm 56 says God sees and keeps record of.
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