God’s Personal Record: Every Tear, Every Struggle Captured in Psalm 56
As the episode unfolds, Spoon transitions into a more contemplative analysis of Psalm 56, where he highlights David's heartfelt expressions of sorrow and his yearning for God's comfort. He interprets the poignant imagery of God 'numbering our wanderings' and collecting our tears, reinforcing the notion that God is intimately aware of our struggles and emotions. This segment serves as a reminder to listeners that their pain is acknowledged by God, and that seeking Him in moments of distress can lead to profound spiritual insights and healing. Spoon emphasizes that God’s attentiveness to our pain is not just a theological concept but a deeply personal reality for each believer.
A) Psalm 56, picking it up at verse eight, contains some of the deepest and most profound words found anywhere in the scriptures. David says three significant things: Number one, "You number my wanderings." Number two, "Put my tears in your bottle." And number three, "Are they not in your book?"
B) Looking at verse 8 when David says, "You number my wanderings," God knows the exact number of times we have wandered into the closet to talk with Him at our deepest and darkest moments. He also knows our wanderings when we have turned our faces away from Him and relied on other resources. But this text has more to do with dealing with the pain from people who are hurting him and his frustration with the situation.
C) He asks God to put his tears in a bottle so that not one honest moment of his grief is missed by God. He wants it to be recorded so he can know that God shares his grief. He wants to be assured that God bears with him in his struggle and that he can cast his cares onto God. He asks God not to miss one tear so that he might not miss one comfort.
D) Then David asks, "Are they not in your book?" This book is not the Bible. This book is a record that God keeps of us individually. In case you’re wondering, God has a separate book for each and every one of us, recording every single thing that has ever happened to us, whether inwardly or outwardly, our thoughts, our actions, our words, what we have done to others, and what others have done to us.
Takeaways:
- Doctor David Spoon emphasizes the importance of seeking God during our darkest moments, encouraging listeners to approach God with raw honesty and vulnerability.
- The discussion revolves around Psalm 56:8, highlighting how God keeps track of our emotional pain by capturing our tears in a bottle.
- The concept of God recording our life experiences in a personal 'book' emphasizes His intimate knowledge and concern for each individual.
- Spoon encourages listeners to cast their cares and concerns onto God, reinforcing the idea that He cares deeply for our struggles and emotions.
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Doctor David Spoon:We are picking it up in verse eight in psalm 56, which is David, when the Philistines kind of captured him in gath and he was kind of like a little bit of a situation and then drool coming down in his beard and doing what he had to do to survive.
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Doctor David Spoon:You number my wanderings.
Doctor David Spoon:Put my tears into your bottle.
Doctor David Spoon:Are they not in your book?
Doctor David Spoon:When I cry out to you, then my enemies will turn back.
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Doctor David Spoon:You number my wanderings.
Doctor David Spoon:So there are three significant things.
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Doctor David Spoon:There are three significant things that are in this text, but I want to key in on each one separately.
Doctor David Spoon:You number my wanderings as the first one.
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Doctor David Spoon:When David says, you number my wanderings, there are a couple of applications this could be, and this would really apply to you and me.
Doctor David Spoon:God knows the exact times and the exact number of times we have wandered into the closet.
Doctor David Spoon:Everybody's trying to get out of the closet.
Doctor David Spoon:Jesus is trying to get everybody back in the closet, wandered into the closet to talk with him in our deepest and darkest moments.
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Doctor David Spoon:When you are in a place where you are attacking or going to go forward in something or approaching something or going for something, whatever the case may be.
Doctor David Spoon:You will find times where there is this really difficult moment in the process.
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Doctor David Spoon:You drop your whatever you're gonna do, and you just come before the Lord and you go, I just need you and me right now.
Doctor David Spoon:That's called wandering into the closet.
Doctor David Spoon:I love that the David says, you number my wanderings.
Doctor David Spoon:Now that's one approach.
Doctor David Spoon:And just so you can know, I think it's an exceedingly valid Approach, because there are times where we have to wander into the Lord and just go.
Doctor David Spoon:I'm wandering into you, wondering what you're doing and waiting for you to tell me something.
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Doctor David Spoon:That's what that is.
Doctor David Spoon:That's one.
Doctor David Spoon:Here's another way of understanding wandering, and that is simply this.
Doctor David Spoon:There are times where you and I don't walk the perfect walk.
Doctor David Spoon:So not only do we bring our deep and darkest moments, he knows our wanderings when we've turned our face away from him.
Doctor David Spoon:Wait, wait, wait.
Doctor David Spoon:And relied on other resources.
Doctor David Spoon:That, too, is a wandering.
Doctor David Spoon:We wander from the Lord.
Doctor David Spoon:We're not, we've not fallen away in the sense of rejecting.
Doctor David Spoon:We've just put our confidence, hope and faith in something a little bit more than we've put it in God.
Doctor David Spoon:I am telling you as a brother in the Lord, that is wandering when we look to something other than God as the core, when we look to something other than God as the source and the resource, and I go through it, too, on a regular basis.
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Doctor David Spoon:And then I think, I'll do this, I'll do this and I'll do this.
Doctor David Spoon:And in a sense, I'm wandering from utilizing the Lord.
Doctor David Spoon:It's not that I'm not trying to use wisdom, but I'm certainly not waiting on him.
Doctor David Spoon:I'm certainly not doing the full dependence, because, you know, every once in a while God needs help, and I'm here to help him.
Doctor David Spoon:You get the sarcasm in that.
Doctor David Spoon:That's what I go through.
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Doctor David Spoon:So there's this wandering into the closet for those face to face moments.
Doctor David Spoon:There's the wandering when we turn our faces away from him and rely on other resources.
Doctor David Spoon:And you know what?
Doctor David Spoon:We do it more than we maybe care to admit.
Doctor David Spoon:But in this particular text and in this particular context, this has to do with him dealing with pain from people who are hurting him.
Doctor David Spoon:And his frustration is with the situation.
Doctor David Spoon:And he's just wandering in this scenario going, come on.
Doctor David Spoon:It's kind of like being in the desert, right?
Doctor David Spoon:God pulls them out of Egypt, out of the bondage.
Doctor David Spoon:They go through the desert, and they're going to get into the promised land.
Doctor David Spoon:But in between the bondage and the promised land is the walk in the desert, the wilderness.
Doctor David Spoon:And that's a part of this, too.
Doctor David Spoon:You number my wanderings.
Doctor David Spoon:You number how many times I've been through this, where it was this.
Doctor David Spoon:You brought me out and you're bringing me in, but I'm on hold and I'm trying to figure it out, and I need some help, and I'm really frustrated, and these people are hurting me, and I don't want you to shoot them, but I do want you to spank them.
Doctor David Spoon:I don't want you to destroy them, but I'd like you to make an example of them.
Doctor David Spoon:You see that right there?
Doctor David Spoon:Don't tell me you've never felt that.
Doctor David Spoon:All we're getting in this text is how human David is.
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Doctor David Spoon:You're getting God recording how humanity David is.
Doctor David Spoon:God knows you're going through that.
Doctor David Spoon:He knows that you're struggling with that.
Doctor David Spoon:And I've got to say this because this is this next part of the verse.
Doctor David Spoon:He goes, you number my wanderings and look what he says.
Doctor David Spoon:Put my tears into your bottle.
Doctor David Spoon:He's asking God to take his tears and put them in a bottle.
Doctor David Spoon:Right?
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Doctor David Spoon:He's asking.
Doctor David Spoon:They have built off of this verse.
Doctor David Spoon:Put my tears in a bottle so that not one honest moment of my grief, God is missed by you.
Doctor David Spoon:Take the tears that I'm feeling, the pain that I've struggled with, just the rejection and the discouragement, the wandering away from you and the wandering into your closet and trying to fight with you and the wandering of what's going on in this relationship, in this situation, and take every tear that I've ever cried and put it in a bottle so that it's not missed.
Doctor David Spoon:I want you to record it.
Doctor David Spoon:He wants it to be recorded so he can know this.
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Doctor David Spoon:God shares his grief.
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Doctor David Spoon:And he's like, this is how God feels for you.
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Doctor David Spoon:God shares our grief, and he wants to be assured that God bears with him in his struggle and that he can cast his cares unto the Lord.
Doctor David Spoon:So he's asking him, don't miss one tear.
Doctor David Spoon:And he's asking him not to miss one tear so he doesn't miss 1oz of comfort.
Doctor David Spoon:Record what's going on here.
Doctor David Spoon:Record my pain.
Doctor David Spoon:Record this frustration so that you can comfort me, so that I know you have a record of it.
Doctor David Spoon:I'm trying to do it right.
Doctor David Spoon:Lord, help me through it.
Doctor David Spoon:Be my God of comfort.
Doctor David Spoon:As the scripture says, we're supposed to cast our care unto him.
Doctor David Spoon:Every one of those cares, every one of those tears are recorded.
Doctor David Spoon:How power.
Doctor David Spoon:How powerful is that?
Doctor David Spoon:It's like, what?
Doctor David Spoon:Every moment.
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Doctor David Spoon:Who were the disciples?
Doctor David Spoon:Who argued or pursued being able to sit on the right and left hand side of Jesus?
Doctor David Spoon:Who were the disciples?
Doctor David Spoon:Matthew, chapter ten, verse two.
Doctor David Spoon:Matthew, chapter 20, verses 20 through 24.
Doctor David Spoon:Who were the disciples who wanted to sit on the left and right hand of Jesus?
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Doctor David Spoon:All right, anyway, here's your trivia question.
Doctor David Spoon:Who were the two disciples that were fighting to sit, not fighting, but trying to get it so that they could sit on the right and left hand side of Jesus?
Doctor David Spoon:Matthew chapter 20, verses 20 through 24 is going to be your specific answer.
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Doctor David Spoon:You're going to go what?
Doctor David Spoon:Back to verse eight?
Doctor David Spoon:You number my wanderings, put my tears in your bottle.
Doctor David Spoon:Ready?
Doctor David Spoon:Oh, wait, I'm not even done.
Doctor David Spoon:Are they not in your book?
Doctor David Spoon:What?
Doctor David Spoon:Wait a minute.
Doctor David Spoon:What?
Doctor David Spoon:Are they not in your book?
Doctor David Spoon:What book?
Doctor David Spoon:What?
Doctor David Spoon:David asks, are they not in your book?
Doctor David Spoon:Hey, in case you didn't know, this book is not the Bible.
Doctor David Spoon:I know you're thinking, no, that should be the Bible.
Doctor David Spoon:Wrong.
Doctor David Spoon:This book is a record that God keeps of us individually.
Doctor David Spoon:In case you're wondering, and I'm going to really make this clear to you, God has a separate book for each and every one of us.
Doctor David Spoon:I'm sorry, what?
Doctor David Spoon:I doubt it's a folder because we have such extensive lives.
Doctor David Spoon:I consider it to be a book.
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Doctor David Spoon:Let me just say that every one of us has.
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Doctor David Spoon:Has.
Doctor David Spoon:God has a book that has a recording of every single thing that has ever happened to us, whether inwardly, outwardly, our thoughts, our actions, our words, what we have done to others and what others have done to us.
Doctor David Spoon:You have a book.
Doctor David Spoon:That's right.
Doctor David Spoon:There's a book with only your name and your fingerprints on it.
Doctor David Spoon:When David said, are they not in your book?
Doctor David Spoon:It was the book for David, not the Bible.
Doctor David Spoon:And you, my friends, you my brothers and sisters, you have a book now in that book.
Doctor David Spoon:I will say this to you, and I'm trying to be nice about this.
Doctor David Spoon:There are going to be some really awesome things, things that God has done for you, things that he saved you in maybe things you don't even know about.
Doctor David Spoon:I think that's going to be a big part of the awesomeness of eternity that we're going to get all that stuff.
Doctor David Spoon:And I want to point out that there will be things in that book where the salvations take place, the answers to prayer, deliverance, miracles, all of that.
Doctor David Spoon:But there will also be other things in that book.
Doctor David Spoon:Everything.
Doctor David Spoon:Since God is omniscient, which means he knows everything.
Doctor David Spoon:There is nothing in your existence that is not in that book, and he owns the book, even if it has your name on it.
Doctor David Spoon:And yes, in that book there will be a few things that perhaps you wish there would be some whiteout for.
Doctor David Spoon:There won't be white out.
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Doctor David Spoon:Yeah, I think you're catching on to what I'm trying to say.
Doctor David Spoon:You have a book.
Doctor David Spoon:And for your wanderings and your tears, that book has your name and your name alone.
Doctor David Spoon:Wow.
Doctor David Spoon:Who were the disciples who wanted to sit at the right and left hand side of Jesus?
Doctor David Spoon:The answer is James and John.
Doctor David Spoon:James and John.
Doctor David Spoon:Al wants us to know that his book is a comic book.
Doctor David Spoon:All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take a break right now.
Doctor David Spoon:You're listening to the David Spoon experience right here on Kam, 770, the truth station here in Texas.
Doctor David Spoon:Shortbreak.
Doctor David Spoon:We'll be back.
Doctor David Spoon:Don't go anywhere.
Announcer:Have you ever wanted to get involved with a ministry that promotes Jesus Christ as Lord but just dont know how?
Announcer:Serving in ministry is a matter of devotion, time and talent.
Announcer:Are you looking for a place to try and test the waters?
Announcer:Do you want to get involved?
Announcer:Come join the Ambassadors initiative.
Announcer:Be an ambassador for the David Spoon experience.
Announcer:It doesnt pay great.
Announcer:Actually, it doesnt pay anything.
Announcer:But the eternal benefits are out of this world.
Announcer:Be a representative?
Announcer:Why not?
Announcer:It couldnt hurt.
Announcer:Well, we hope not.
Announcer:Anyway, you dont need to be a professionally qualified minister.
Announcer:You need to have a pulse.
Announcer:By that we mean you need to have a heart.
Announcer:Just go to hemustincrease.org dot.
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Announcer:Click on the three lines at the top right of the website and then click on the ambassadors initiative link.
Announcer:Fill out the form and we will reach out to you.
Announcer:Sorry, no parking tickets will be paid for you as an ambassador through this position.
Announcer:What is the David spoon experience?
Doctor David Spoon:Jesus Christ as the lamb of God for you and I, God provided his own burnt offering, his own lamb of sacrifice, because our presentations are not that hot.
Doctor David Spoon:And this is where you get the understanding that the gift of God is eternal life.
Doctor David Spoon:Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Doctor David Spoon:All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Doctor David Spoon:How many?
Doctor David Spoon:All.
Doctor David Spoon:And the wages of sin is death.
Doctor David Spoon:That's the result.
Doctor David Spoon:But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Doctor David Spoon:And God showed his love for us while we were still sinners.
Doctor David Spoon:That Christ died for us.
Doctor David Spoon:That's the love.
Doctor David Spoon:He was the sacrificial lamb.
Doctor David Spoon:And if you have never made that decision, I invite you right now to make that decision to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord.
Doctor David Spoon:If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Doctor David Spoon:Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Doctor David Spoon:This is where you get John 316, which people will say, is the gospel in a scripture which is not far off.
Doctor David Spoon:For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Doctor David Spoon:That gift is available for you.
Doctor David Spoon:And if you have never exercised that acceptance of that gift, I encourage you to do so by saying this prayer.
Doctor David Spoon:And don't go anywhere cause I got another one for all of us.
Doctor David Spoon:Heavenly Father, I surrender my life.
Doctor David Spoon:Lord Jesus Christ, I give you my heart.
Doctor David Spoon:Pour out your holy spirit for I believe you rose from the dead and I confess with my mouth you died for my sins.
Doctor David Spoon:According to the scriptures you were buried and three days later you rose again.
Doctor David Spoon:You ascended to the Father and are coming back soon and I thank you for this new life you've given me.
Doctor David Spoon:I praise you and pray this in your name.
Doctor David Spoon:Amen.
Doctor David Spoon:If you prayed that prayer for the first time, you are now a Christian.
