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You yourself have recorded my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle. 
Are they not in your book?
Psalms 56:8 CSB

David's story behind this Psalm is found in 1 Samuel 20-21.
He's been rejected.
Outcast.
And is alone.
In that, or in response to that, he writes this verse of his song...he knows that he isn't truly alone.
God has seen his wandering. 
He is seen.
His life does matter.
Somehow God is recording his tears. 
He knows.
Knows of the loss and the hurt that he is going through, never outcast from God, while he was rejected by Saul, never by God.
When we're feeling rejected, outcast, at some point we too will know that we are seen.
Not lost to God.
Not outcast by Him.
That somehow he shares in our tears.
How do we know this?
Because Jesus.
He was outcast from God on the cross so we don't have to be.
He was rejected by people, so he knows.
He shares in our tears because he cried them too. 
He took all those tears and absorbed them into himself. Recorded them in his scars.
No matter what, no matter how it feels or how it seems in the moment, we are not lost, not outcast.
We are:
Accepted.
Redeemed.
Loved.
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