He
Hears Me When I Cry
I love the LORD,
for he heard my voice…Because he turned his ear to me, I will call
on him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1, 2
“Mooooom!?” echoed a young girl’s
cry from the shallow end of the pool. Nancy instinctively turned her
head toward the cry. Seeing Lindsay wasn’t in any immediate danger,
she walked over the where her daughter was splashing water in the
face of her cousin, who was doing the same to her.
“Make him stop, Mom!” Lindsay
complained.
Nancy stifled a laugh, “If you don’t
like it, stop splashing Shawn. And, Shawn, big boys aren’t supposed
to pick on little girls, especially when it’s their younger
cousin,” she admonished her nephew.
With the situation settled for the time
being, Nancy walked back to her chaise lounge and lay back down.
“Where’d you go?” Polly asked
opening her eyes just enough to look in her sister’s direction.
“I heard Lindsay hollering at Shawn.”
“In this chaos?!” Rachel exclaimed.
“There’s got to be two hundred screaming kids in that pool! How’d
you hear Lindsay’s voice above all that noise?”
“I guess my ears are tuned to hear my
kids when they need me,” Nancy said. “You’ll hear your baby’s
voice when he’s born, too,” she added, pointing to her friends
growing tummy.
†
As a mother’s ears hear the sound of
her child’s voice among a hundred other screaming kids, so is God
able to hear our individual cry among the countless voices of those
who cry out to Him.
The Psalmist was so impressed by the
turning of God’s ear to his cry of distress, “Then I called on
the name of the LORD: ‘LORD,
save me!’ ”, that he resolved to call on the LORD
for the rest of his life.
It is unfathomable to us that God can
and does hear our voice even when millions, if not billions of
voices are calling His Name at the same time. Omniscience and
omnipotence give Him the ability to not only hear us, but they enable
God to minister to us intimately at the same time He is ministering
to others. And although we may not totally understand how that works,
we can rest assured that He hears us when we cry.
Prayer
“I am amazed that You
can hear me when I cry, LORD. Thank You for
always listening. Amen.”
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