A. He knows every tear you've shed:2KI 20:5. Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. PSA 56:8. Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? MAR 9:24. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. B. He knows exactly what you're experiencing:EXO 3:7. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; PSA 103:13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. PSA 103:14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. ISA 53:4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ISA 63:9. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. HEB 4:15. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. C. Though He chastises us He loves & comforts:PSA 30:5. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. PSA 71:20. Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. PSA 103:9. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. ISA 12:1. And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. LAM 3:31. For the LORD will not cast off for ever: LAM 3:32. But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. LAM 3:33. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. HOS 6:1. Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. HOS 6:2. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. HOS 6:3. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. |
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