Cry Unto The Lord!
By: Robert A. Searles
“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. Hear the voice of my
supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward
thy holy oracle. Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the
workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but
mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds and
according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the
work of their hands; render to them their desert. Because they
regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he
shall destroy them, and not build them up. Blessed be the Lord,
because he hath heard the voice of my supplications The Lord is my
strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped;
therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise
him., The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of
his anointed. Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed
them also, and lift them up for ever.” Psalm 28 (KJV).
Have your noticed a small child
when he wants something? What does he do? He cries and throws a
tantrum to his parents or to those who are in charge of him until he
gets their attention and makes them become aware of his desires.
Sometimes he gets what he cries for and sometimes he doesn't; but the
point is, he makes them become aware of his desires. God wants his
children to cry unto him with hope and enthusiasm for the things that
we need and desire. We are to approach God as dear children. The
bible tells us that except we come as little children, we cannot
approach God.
Sometimes small children cry and
throw tantrums and nag their parents for things that are good and
right for them, and sometimes they nag for things which are wrong and
bad for them. It is up to the parent to decide what is best for the
children, but the point of all this is that the small child has
enough knowledge and faith and confidence in his parents to believe
that his parents love him enough so that they will not ignore his
crying and nagging.
God honors our faith and
confidence in him as a parent and he wants us to cry unto him and nag
him, as it were, for the things that we need and desire,, and as a
wise God and father, he never ignores us but gives us those things
which he knows are good and right for us., If we want to be built up
and prosper, we must regard the works of the Lord and realize that
the universe is his. He made it, and he has a perfect right to
control it
A parent gives a child protection
when that child puts his faith and confidence in the tender mercies
of his parents. Likewise, God shields us and protects us when we
come running and crying to him as a child. Jesus, in the garden,
cried and cried to God in such agony that he sweat great drops of
blood. Jesus told the story of the man who was asleep with his
family, and his neighbor came pounding on his door and nagging him.
He had to open the door because of his constant nagging. Jesus
likened this to God answering us if we are consistent and constant in
prayer. God answers those who believe in him enough to keep
pounding at his door and crying unto him like dear children.
“And Moses and Aaron went out
from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the Lord because of the frogs
which he had brought against Pharaoh.” Exodus 8: 12 (KJV). “And
the people murmured against Moses, saying, what shall we drink? And
he (Moses) cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which
when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there
he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved
them.,”Exodus 15: 24, 25 (KJV).
“In my distress I called upon
the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his
temple, and my cry did enter into his heart. Then the earth shook
and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he
was wroth.” 2 Samuel 22: 7,8 (KJV) “The righteous cry, and the
Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
Psalm 34: 17 (KJV)
“And the Lord said, I have
surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their
sorrows;....Exodus 3: 7 (KJV). Egypt is a type of the world in which
we live, surrounded by sin and corruption. As God heard the cry of
the children of Israel while they were in Egypt and delivered them,
so he will hear our cry from our surroundings and deliver us.
“And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,. Lama sabachthani ? That
is to say, my God, my God, Why hast thou forsaken me?” Matthew
27: 46 (KJV). Jesus thought it to be effective to cry aloud with a
loud voice to God. In the coming kingdom of God there will be no
more need for crying and nagging because our inheritance will be in
our hands, and we will be in the presence of God.
“And I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no
more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” Isaiah 65: 19 (KJV).
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain, for the former things are passed away.” Revelations
21:4 (KJV)
While we are still here on earth,
waiting for the return of the Lord, and waiting for his kingdom to
come, what a privilege we have to come crying to God as his dear
children.
