Moanings: He Sees Your Tears and Hears Your Cries

The Lord hears our cries and He sees our tears. He is ever in tune with our ways and looks with an eye of love and mercy upon the leanings and groanings and desires of His children as we take them to Him. Others perhaps slight and take no notice, but the Lord sees and knows all. Not even a hair falls from our heads that He is not totally aware of. Before a word is on our tongue He knows it full well. We serve an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-loving God Who ever has our best interest at heart – even in the most excruciatingly difficult. Further, He desires for all to come to Him and for none to perish eternally. It does the believer well to remember that earth is merely our sojourn yet heaven is our home.    

Our Lord reflects upon the least good done by even the weakest saints always through His eyes of love. He judges the thoughts and attitudes of our hearts and He casts off no one who willingly seeks Him. He sees our smallest acts done for His glory - not for our own – even to giving a cup of water to the least of these in His name. And we will never outgive Him. Whatever meager portion we willing give in His Name and for His glory He more than blesses. How can we think that He does not observe our moaning, our cries and our tears? His desire is for us to come to Him as we walk through these “Valley of Baca’s” (tears) for comfort and strength and assurance that what is allowed will someday, somehow, someway be used for our good and for His glory – one never surpassing the other. That is the promise of Scripture for those who love Him. Romans 8:28-30 (NIV) tells us: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” 

God loves us with an everlasting love and a love that is far greater than simply giving us what we want rather giving us what makes us more like His Son, Who, Scripture tells us in Philippians 2:6-11 (NIV): “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death -- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”