Crying Out to God
From the desk of Rev Tay 19 January 2025
In the Bible, ‘prayer’ generally refers to communion with God. The essence of praying is not to ask but to align human wishes with divine wishes and, thus, to foster a close bond with God. Nonetheless, supplication is the most common kind of prayer for us. We plead with God when we have a great desire or a predicament, hoping God will intervene and help us. For example, the angel told the priest Zechariah, “Your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son…” (Luke 1: 13)
I believe all of us have cried out to God before. Our personal experience would tell us that God does not always hear our cries. But the Lord Jesus said it is not so for three reasons,
“And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?” (Luke 18: 7)
First of all, we are “His chosen ones”. He has predestined us to be God’s children in Christ and to enjoy Him forever in eternity.
Secondly, because we “cry out to Him”. We do not ask based on our rights as His children but based on our helplessness and His compassion. We kneel before Him and cry out to Him as our heavenly Father. Every cry hit right on the heart of God, for the Bible says, “He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death.” (Ps 72: 13)
Lastly, we cry out to him “day and night”, which means non-stop and for a long time. It could be weeks or years. When someone realises God is his only hope, his heart will cry out earnestly! The Lord Jesus told us that God does not look at how big the matter is but how earnest our cries are!
The Lord Jesus knows that we may lose heart if God does not seem to have noticed our prayer after a long time. So, he said, “(you) should always pray and not give up.” (Luke 18: 1) Oh, children of God, behold the amazing Trinity praying alongside us whenever we cry out to God,
“We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words…Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us” (Ro 8: 26, 34)
With two divine persons in the Trinity interceding for us, will our heavenly Father not see that we get justice quickly?
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