Leslie from Light Came began a series yesterday that’s based on The Treasury of David, a collection of Charles Spurgeon’s studies in the Psalms. Each Sunday she’ll select one verse/thought to “chew on.” She’ll share her thoughts after reading it, and she’s invited us to join in. It’s a very profitable way to spend some time on a Sunday afternoon, so I hope a lot of us participate. I’m a day late, but you know how the saying goes…better late than never!

Psalm 3:4

I cried unto the Lord with my voice,
and he heard me out of his holy hill.
Selah

I have often heard persons say in prayer, “Thou art a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God,” but the expression contains a superfluity, since for God to hear is, according to Scripture, the same thing as to answer. –C.H. Spurgeon

My thoughts:

Crying to God with my voice is something I don’t often do. I don’t want to demand, so I hold back, tending to be polite rather than crying out to Him. Holding back keeps me from passionately entering the purpose of God through worship and petition. We’re not to be like spoiled children crying to get our way, but we are to be so longing for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven that we can’t help but cry aloud to Him to act for His glory. I’m realizing more fully just how puny my longings are.