1 Hear my
prayer, O Lord; let my cry for
help come to you (Psalm 102:1)
17 He will respond to the prayer of the
destitute; he will not despise their plea. (Psalm 102:17)
When you read the psalmist’s initial
words in Psalm 102 you get a sense of a
desperate need. It was what I would call
an “SOS” prayer, “God I really need help”.
His cry for help is a desperate plea for assistance. His hearts cry is for God to help him in his
greatest time of need. You get a sense
of the struggle that he is dealing with.
Maybe questions and doubts arising because the prayer hasn’t been
answered when and where he wanted it to.
Does this sound familiar. I’m sure it does to a lot of us. We get stressed, we get worried and we find
ourselves like this psalmist wanting help and desperately begging and pleading
with God to answer. Our problem is we
want it on our timing, we want it NOW.
We want quick action. We want
things to go away. We want our prayers
answered immediately. Of course we do,
why wouldn’t we?
As you have probably figured out by
now, it doesn’t work that way. Now don’t
get me wrong, sometimes God does answer them almost immediately. Sometimes that very minute, sometimes the
next day, or even the next week. But
what about when He doesn’t.
Here is what you and I need to know,
verse 17.
He will respond. Enough said. He will respond to the prayer, He will not look
past our plea. Do you believe that? It is a hard one to swallow. He will respond, just not right away always. He will respond, when you are ready and He is
ready. He will respond when He is ready
to make it fit into His great big Plan for life. God is painting a much bigger picture than
you and I can ever imagine. Hold on dear
child of His, He may not answer today, but keep in mind “He will respond”.
God grant us patience and assurance
to know you will respond… Chris.
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