S3:141 Psalm 56
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Why does God keep my tears in a bottle? What does that even mean? Emma Dotter and faithful Watermark staff member Wes Butler in today’s episode talk about the historical significance of people using bottles to catch tears and how God never lets our sorrow go to waste. Wes also points out that in Psalm 56, David is an example of how laments are a prayer in pain that leads to faith because knowing God’s faithfulness leads us to hope in Christ.
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Dark Clouds Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.5 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:09.8 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:10.9 | Today, we are reading Psalm 56, and I am back. |
| 0:14.5 | It's been a little while, but I'm back in the podcast studio with Wes Butler. |
| 0:18.4 | Happy to be here, Emma. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:20.2 | Glad to have you, Wes. |
| 0:21.6 | Would you share, gosh, just a little bit about what you do at Watermark? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | So as I was sharing with Emma before we started recording, it's the Lord's Sovereignty that I've been given this passage, |
| 0:33.6 | and probably just by nature of what I get to do here at Watermark is I spend a lot of time |
| 0:38.4 | with people who are in the midst of suffering and pain and sorrow and all that. So I oversee our care |
| 0:44.2 | ministries here at Watermark. And so I tell people the easiest way to understand my job is that I |
| 0:49.0 | oversee all the ministries that people don't really want to be a part of. They don't want to put on a 10-year |
| 0:53.1 | plan. Typically, these are events that have happened to them |
| 0:56.0 | or circumstances that have happened to them |
| 0:58.0 | that have created deep hurt and pain for them. |
| 1:00.0 | And we have ministries that are seeking to carry out |
| 1:03.0 | 2 Corinthians 1-3, which is to comfort others |
| 1:06.0 | with the comfort that we ourselves have received. |
| 1:08.0 | And so that's what I get to do. |
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