He is your Receiver
He is ready and waiting.
God is our saviour, the creator, the one who gives in grace… but he is our RECEIVER, ready and waiting. He is ready to receive from us the things we need to let go of, the pain and the hurt, and the sadness. When we don’t realise God values our tears and is wanting to receive us with them, we can devalue the pain and sadness and behave as though it isn’t even there. Sadness has value. The tears we cry over pain and hurt are of enough value for him to collect them and hold them for us.
Psalm 56:8 You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.
Acknowledging the pain and sadness is frightening when it seems we might have it forever. It is overwhelming to feel it might never go away. If we don’t know what to do with it, the hopelessness of this feeling is too much. But what if there was somewhere for it to go? What if it could be handled with care that acknowledged it to be valid and then real freedom and peace could ensue?
Sometimes we say to others they need to let it go and it’s true, if we could let it go and not have it anymore, that would be freeing. How do we let it go? Where do we put it when we let it go? If we let it go into the air around us it seems like we say it doesn’t matter, that the process was not significant, that painful event in my life is of no consequence. It is difficult to let go of our pain and sadness and just move on. God values it enough to keep it and hold it and remember it for us. He values it but doesn’t want us crushed by it. He loves us more than the pain and he wants life for us (John 10:10).
God is the RECEIVER of us, hurt and pain and all. He stands there waiting and not forcing. He is waiting for us to see he is the receiver and he is trustworthy. He waits for us to see that he has bore the pain of injustice, trial, heartache, betrayal and ill treatment. He has cried out to God about the loss. He knows it all too well.
You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8
You have been my helper ... Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me. Psalm 27:9-10