Keeping Lists

God keeps lists.

You have recorded my troubles.
You have kept a list of my tears.
Aren’t they in your records?

~Ps. 56:8

Today is recorded in the heavens and its pains are written with the wet of tears of God who “hurts with the hurt of my people.” (Jeremiah 8:21)

God does not slumber for He cannot cease to bear testimony to our hurt.

God keeps a list.
 
It’s the wildest Love that drives the Father to record His child’s every lament.
We never ache without God attending, and He can’t stand to see a tear fall to the floor. God cups our grief and “puts our tears in His bottle” (Ps. 56:8).


If God makes a list of my laments, I will make a list of God’s love.
 
If God has a list of my pain, I will make a list of my praise. 

If God writes a list of my tears, I will write a list of my thanks.

It’s Love that makes God and I list keepers.