HARVEST JOY -Psalm 126:5
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SCRIPTURE
There are those who SOW, that is," producing, yielding seed", as the Hebrew word says, in TEARS. This process of sowing in our daily lives should produce tears. An intense, deep connecting prayer of repentance towards God (and not your worldly sorrow) will produce tears.
This action of proper sowing will REAP a harvest of JOY in the future. The Hebrew for joy is a ringing cry of entreaty, supplication, in proclamation, or praise. Three scriptures that add some depth and meaning to Psalm 126:5 are:
Galatians 6:9 "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not".
Hosea 10:12 "Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you".
Psalm 56:8 “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?”
The concept of God keeping David’s tears in a bottle comes from the ancient practice of lachrymatories as “there is an allusion here to the custom of collecting tears shed in a time of calamity and sorrow, and preserving them in a small bottle or ‘lachrymatory,’ as a memorial of the grief.”
When David says that God is keeping his tears in a bottle, David is referring to the fact that God remembers all of our sorrows, pains, and griefs. God remembers every single tear that we shed, and He will never forget the great amount of tears that have streamed down our faces.
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