Psalm 143:7-8
Answer me quickly, O Lord!
My spirit fails!
Hide not your face from me,
lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
The psalmist here sounds like me when my computer slows down while I am typing my devotional. I wonder what people in ancient times would make of our impatience at an email not being received within five seconds of our sending it. Paul would write his letters from prison, send it on foot, taking weeks, and then wait for the reply, which would take even more weeks. Fortunately, the psalmist knows that he can rely on the Lord. That is why he prayed to him in the first place. If he had been truly impatient, he would have handled the situation himself because God was too slow. He wanted God to intervene because he believed he could and would.
We can have a lot of moments in our lives where we cry out like the psalmist for God to show his face now. Hopefully, it is not for something so mundane as a slow computer. What a comfort it is that no matter what is causing us anguish and making our spirit fail, In God, you can trust if you lift up your soul to him in prayer. Today, pray and wait on his timing, knowing that…
He will show his face.