God’s bag and bottle – Thomas Brooks

“My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.” Job 14:17

“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

God counted all those weary steps that David took in passing through those great forests, when he fled from Saul. While David was hunted up and down like a partridge, and chased out of every bush, and was driven from one country to another God was all this while, a-noting down and a-numbering of all his sorrows, and a-bottling up all his tears, and a-booking down all his sighs!

Not a single tear of mine is ever lost, but kept safe in God’s bottle as so much sweet water.

God is said in Scripture to have a bag and a bottle: a bag for our sins, and a bottle for our tears. And oh that we would all labor to fill His bottle with our tears of repentance, as we have filled His bag with our sins!