“Bow
down Your ear, O LORD, hear me: For I am poor and needy” (Psalm 86:1, NKJV).
In
every situation of need; there is a struggle in the need. The struggle begins in the need and continues
as the need escalates in intensity. As the intensity grows, we look first and
foremost for help in the reserves of our mental capacities, emotional strength
and in the character of our willful determination and continuing perseverance. Sometimes
the need is simply beyond our capacities. If we continue to falter in the need,
exhausting our reserves, we may resort to appealing to someone else for
direction, encouragement and support. In
our appeals for help with our need as we look to another, we must be certain of
our relationship and certain of the capacities of the other in being of able to
help us with our need.
Our
families can help us in our need. Our friends can come to our rescue and even
strangers can surprise us in their responses to any given situation of need. Just as easily, our friends and family can
fail in our hour of greatest need. They
can be unavailable, disinterested and even inadequate to provide for the assistance
that we need in the moment or in our season of need. Even in the security of the relationships
closest to us, we can find great inadequacies and insufficiencies. We may even scare away the very help we need
because of the intensity of our need.
There
is one source of help for any and every need that stand apart from all others.
Our God stands alone as He is always attentive, readily available, full of
compassion and understanding, beyond sufficient to answer and to provide
strength, comfort and victory in every situation of need. He alone brings help for every situation of
need. He is the Faithful One who hears and the Mighty One who responds with
abundant and purposed love answering all of our needs.
In
our need, we come as David, the Psalmist, came to the God, who was his Lord. We cry as David cried. We call out to our Lord, as David called out
to his Lord. We pray as David prayed and we can be assured of our being heard
as David was heard by our God. We can be
comforted as David was comforted. We can be secure as David was secure in both
the sufficiency of God’s provision and salvation. We may live in time far removed from the time
of David but our God is the same God, and our Lord is the same Lord. “For You are great, and do wondrous things;
You alone are God” (Psalm 86:10, NKJV).
A
prayer adapted from Psalm 86
I
seek You and look only to You; Most Holy
and Mighty God. Come close to me and listen to my cries for help. I am in need
of You, just now. You alone can do all things and provide for all things. I am poor and needy but I am yours alone and
You are my Precious and Generous Heavenly Father. I trust in You alone for all
my needs. Come, O Lord, come again to me in my need. Your forgiveness covers all
my sin when I call upon you and Your provision and salvation is wonderful and beyond
compare. Comfort me, O Lord, as You answer me through Your Spirit, for great is
your mercy, grace and love towards me, through Jesus Christ my Savior and
Redeemer. Amen.
Suggested
Reading … Psalm 86
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