Tears? There are no tears in heaven? So what happens to the tears that God stores in a bottle?

Question

I know because I asked the Lord what happened to them but my brother suggested I ask people what they think, so I'm asking. What do you think happens to all those tear bottles that God has?

Psalms 56:8

8 You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
NASU

Answer 1

I know, I know. But I promised I would not answer. So I will not say unless nobody else gets it right.

I am watching..................

I guess I will answer, some people are close.
This same thing was done twice in the Bible that I can think of off the top of my head.
Mary the sister of Lazarus washed Jesus' feet with her tears, and dried them with her hair.
Jesus washed the feet of the disciples before the last supper.
We will wash the feet of Jesus with the tears that God has stored in those bottles.

Answer 2

Along time ago God opened my eyes to this verse.
How my father must love me.To store every tear,I have ever cried in a vial and write them in a book.
I know not what God will do with my tears,but sometimes" I"
think they are in the 7 vials poured out in the book of Revelations.Or will they be used to wash our feet.
I know our prayers are a sweet savor unto God.Like the perfume in the alabaster box.
Jesus is my Salvation.<><

Answer 3

The NIV Study Bible says: "Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll - are they not in your record ? "

This is appeal for God to take a special note of the psalmist's troubles.

The psalmist is confident that God has particular interest in his every pain, even his every tear. He also knows the great truth that comes from meaning of God's name, that the Lord is for us.

Yes, there is no tears in heaven. That is God's promise, no more suffering in heaven. And He cares about our suffering here. As He asks us to endure pain, He knows our tears by drops, every one of them : )

Answer 4

That is a nice poetic song but it is not scriptural. God will wipe away the tears from our eyes.

Most people don't read the King James version any more because there are lots of newer translations of the Bible that use source texts that are much older and they can compare the existing texts of the Bible to each other to get the most accurate translation of the Word of God.

I found that some of the older texts use the "tears in a bottle" wording. It is very pretty to think about. I think that even for God this is poetic language.

For instance Jesus refers to Himself as a thief but we know that he was drawing an analogy not stealing from people.

Answer 5

I think it means that God knows and cares about the most minute details of our life, and the very cries of our heart. Each one is remembered and preserved by Him, and He will wipe away every tear when we get to heaven. (Hope you'll write your thoughts here too.)

Answer 6

Well that's thrown more light on it then I'd ever pondered about!!
Very lovely answers, thankyou to all (who answered the question decently), You've really touched me! waoo..ooo ....thanks to our ever thought provoking Jan.
It also makes me think about other mysteries of God and what other people meditate on!
Isn't He a great God that we serve? How could we not Love Him?
Jan, you'll have to give ten points to a few I think and yourself!
God Bless you all.
x

Answer 7

Psalm 56:8-9
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Several things David here comforts himself with in the day of his distress and fear.

(This is only one of several, but the following is specifically about what you are inquiring.....it is word for word from one of my major study guides.)

2. Of all the impressions thus made upon his spirit. When he was wandering he was often weeping, and therefore prays, "Put thou my tears into thy bottle, to be preserved and looked upon; nay, I know they are in thy book, the book of thy remembrance.’’ God has a bottle and a book for his people’s tears, both those for their sins and those for their afflictions. This intimates, (1.) That he observes them with compassion and tender concern; he is afflicted in their afflictions, and knows their souls in adversity. As the blood of his saints, and their deaths, are precious in the sight of the Lord, so are their tears, not one of them shall fall to the ground. I have seen thy tears, 2 Ki. 20:5. I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, Jer. 31:18. (2.) That he will remember them and review them, as we do the accounts we have booked. Paul was mindful of Timothy’s tears (2 Tim. 1:4), and God will not forget the sorrows of his people. The tears of God’s persecuted people are bottled up and sealed among God’s treasures; and, when these books come to be opened, they will be found vials of wrath, which will be poured out upon their persecutors, whom God will surely reckon with for all the tears they have forced from his people’s eyes; and they will be breasts of consolation to God’s mourners, whose sackcloth will be turned into garments of praise. God will comfort his people according to the time wherein he has afflicted them, and give to those to reap in joy who sowed in tears. What was sown a tear will come up a pearl.

(I had never actually heard this before and wanted to comment much like many others did,but I chose to look it up and the above is what I came up with...thanks for the inspiration to do a little research.)

Answer 8

That is a good question. I have never thought of it. But I suppose they will be turned into joy. I will study it and see if I can find out.

Answer 9

He'll pour them out like bowls of wrath upon His enemies

Answer 10

He is taking them into account as so many prayers.
The Lord himself cried and so did his mother, when they crucified her son on Calvary and no one believed in him except she.