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“Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” — Psalm 28:1
A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all
other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the
Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we
consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we shall
see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our
salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but
our Rock attends to our cries.
“Be not silent to me.” Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not…
satisfied with
the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will —
they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot
rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little
of God’s silence. God’s voice is often so terrible that it shakes the
wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant.
When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our
mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows
shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing. What a
dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become for ever silent to
our prayers? “Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go
down into the pit.” Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be
in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to
the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is
an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our
agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own
elect to perish.
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“Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” — Psalm 28:1
A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all
other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the
Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we
consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we shall
see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our
salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but
our Rock attends to our cries.
“Be not silent to me.” Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not…
satisfied with
the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will —
they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot
rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little
of God’s silence. God’s voice is often so terrible that it shakes the
wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant.
When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our
mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows
shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing. What a
dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become for ever silent to
our prayers? “Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go
down into the pit.” Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be
in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to
the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is
an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our
agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own
elect to perish.
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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