A Closer Intimacy With Our Father

 He has scheduled every day of our lives and knows the tears that will result from the afflictions of His people. Our times are in His hands and we have a God Who knows and loves and cares for everything that causes His children pain. Even in these times of deep sadness and distress, we can, like our Savior, gain a closer intimacy with our Father through the things that we suffer in obedience to His will.
 The wonderful thing is that through it, we will gain a closeness to His heart of love, and a depth of understanding of our God that we never imagined possible, God has promised that the day is coming when sorrow will be turned into joy and tears will be turned into laughter. A day when He Himself will wipe away every wet tear from our eye-lashes.
You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your compassionate mercy toward us. Thank You that You care so deeply about everything that causes us pain, that You have put our tears in a bottle. Thank You that You know so intimately about everything that causes our tears and that in You, we can find our true source of comfort. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.