“I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.”
Psalm 40:1.
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!” (Isaiah 49:15, NIV). This Scripture tells how best God is in nurturing His children than a mother.
A mother may wait to hear her child weep profusely before she can sense their need, but God doesn’t need us to cry before wiping our tears. The voice of our heart—that which is not uttered, and the words of our tears reach Him at all times. He knows so much that He can attest to the kind of pain we bear and how grievous it can be. This is the very reason God wouldn’t make us a judge over any man except by Himself because we can misinterpret pains even out of genuine concern for one another.
When the Scripture speaks about God hearing our cries, it is so peculiar that He can distinguish our voice from many other children who wail—whether the unifying tone of our shout in prayers or the individual soberness and state of grief we may experience. So loving it is that God is the only one who truly pays attention to our tears when others find it disturbing.
Confession: Dear Lord, by your mercy, be quick to hear and answer when I cry out to you.
Further Study: Psalm 18:6, 34:17, 145:18-19; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Isaiah 65:24; 1 Peter 3:12.
