“Hear my prayer, O Lord;
let my cry come to you!
Do not hide your face from me in days of distress!
Incline your ear to me,
answer me. speedily in the day when I call!” — Psalms 102:1–2.
I just read this Psalm and today, this is a particular piece of Scripture that speaks to me. The Psalm comes from an afflicted person in crisis. In the Psalm, the author asks God to “hear my prayer” and begs God in a human way, one that speaks of the voice of a human being rather than a robot.
The Psalmist shows that he hasn’t seen God recently. He is suffering greatly. He has been distressed and doesn’t know what the future calls. The first two verses of Psalms 102 is a cry for help to God, and a desperate one at that.
As Christians, we need to be in need. We need to be desperate for God, and especially in crisis-filled times like this with COVID-19.
I spend a lot of time in the trenches. Teaching in the inner-city, sometimes it is hard to see how God can let some of my kids have gone through the trauma they’ve gone through at such a young age, from severe drug addiction to death to homelessness. I have consulted…
