Watch and Listen

Answer me quickly, O Lord!…

Hide not your face from me…

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love… Ps.143:7,8

Implicit in seeking God is that we are available for him to answer us. We expect him to respond; we expect to see and hear with our spiritual eyes and ears; we will remain in a posture of expectancy even though we are dangling on the precipice of despair, like David, who lets God know that his spirit fails! He finds himself hanging on by a thread in the face of his enemies. This battle is difficult and very real. David is a real man, with real emotions, calling out to the real God, but he is not sure how much longer he can hang on.

 I have certainly found that the cacophony of the battle, whether it is internal or external, has obscured my ability to see and hear. For me, I need to withdraw into silence and solitude, often in the late night hours, when the household is asleep, to begin to hear a voice other than my own cry for help, and see more than the enemies arrayed against me. Silence, scripture, solitude are ways for me to see and hear.