Have you sometimes wondered if God gets tired of listening to us complain and cry and plead? Do you sometimes wonder if God is really listening? I think many people have this idea that God is so far removed from us as to not know or even care what is happening in our lives.
In Psalm 6 we see David struggling mightily. He doesn’t mince words or try to sweet talk or manipulate. He is repentant. He is genuine. He pleads. He cries. Verses 6 & 7 capture the absolute agony he is feeling. “I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood by bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears. My vision is blurred by grief; my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.”
Sounds really dire, doesn’t it? And yet in verse 9 he declares emphatically, “The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord will answer my prayer”. There is no doubt. There was no question. There is simply the statement that the Lord will answer.
My prayer for you – as well as me – is that in our despair – in our grief – that we will see the promises of God.
Scriptures taken from the New Living Translation.