In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. — Psalm 5:3 (NIV)
Tom Petty sang, “The waaaaaaaiting is the hardest part.” When we pray, as David prayed in Psalm 5, we may find it difficult to wait upon the Lord to reveal His will or act upon our requests. David was waiting for God to do something. In verse 1 he wrote, “Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my sighing.” In verse 2 he said, “Listen to my cry for help…”. David had a problem. He was sighing and crying to God to help him. So David prayed. He placed his requests at the feet of the Father and waited.
As Americans, we hate to wait. For anything. Yet we spend so much time waiting. We wait in line at the bank. We wait for test results. We wait in long lines to ride roller coasters. We wait in traffic. We wait on hold with customer service. We wait and wait and wait. Then we wait some more. It doesn’t make us any less impatient, though. We are an impatient people. We do not like to suffer as we wait. I get frustrated when I have to add 30 seconds to the microwave to finish heating up my ravioli. The problem is that our impatience is no less when waiting for God to answer prayer.
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