Come, Ye Needy!

 

Our sense of timing is not only finite, it is also narrow within that set of parameters. We think in small segments of time. Our sense of a long time reflects our parochial view of understanding of history. The best of times or the worst of times, we declare and name with only a limited knowledge of what we mean. A longer view gives a different picture. So, in our poor neediness, we cry out to God for haste.

We cry out with an impending urgency that may not fully realize the span of His grasp of history.

His delays are not delays at all; they are perfection. They are patient restraint awaiting the culmination of all that must culminate before everything comes together as it should.

Still we cry out and our cries are heard and encouraged.

There is no illegitimate prayer of the heart that is seeking God and our sense of urgency is a melody of full engagement to His ears.

"But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying." - Psalm 70:5