Pa, I Want To Whisper In Your Ear
Psalm 86
It's one of those things a Grandpa cherishes from his grandchildren, their love, their closeness, that you are the best even though sometimes you are a grumpy Grandpa. But when my granddaughter I help raise wants to sit with me, snuggles up, and then says those magic words, "Pa, I want to whisper in your ear" you know that what they are about to say is the most meaningful to them at their age at this moment. It is a secret that you can treasure as they do. At their age it may be something as special as "I want to sleep in your bed tonight" or "I love you Pa". But then it might be "the neighbor boy called me a name, and I don't like it".
A prayer of David.
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalms 86:1 GNV
Even as adults (or from young child to aged adult) we have time we desire to tell God our deepest secrets, our love for Him, or the evil we find in our lives day after day. Other times we whisper because otherwise we might be screaming because there are things to hard for us we just want to know, or there are those who want to hurt us in the worst possible way. It may even be that "I want to know you God, but I don't really believe in you and those who are suppposed to care just shut me down and pass me by just like the man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho whom theives left for dead. The priest and the Levite couldn't be bothered. They didn't listen, wouldn't even give me the time of day. And God, if there is a God, if those you set up as the examples and rulers of the things of the heart want nothing to do with me, then why should I bother believing in you?"
God hears even that heart that is wounded by those who claim His name, but live in the vanity and self deceptive position they claim to have from God, yet by the way they retreat from interacting with those who need to hear from God most desperately they take His name in their lives in vain.
My granddaughter trusts me, and so she wants to whisper in my ear. Though I may be a grumpy Grandpa at times she loves me and trusts me with all that is on her heart. Sometimes we may not favor God in the best way (there are plenty of Psalms that do not paint each writer's view of God at that moment in a very favorable light), yet we still cry out to Him knowing there is something there about Him that can be no where else.
Among the gods there is none like thee, O Lord, and there is none that can do like thy works.
Psalms 86:8 GNV
This psalm is not written that way wondering if God even is listening, or even cares, but still as we always should recognize that no matter how hard our circumstances seem there is a truth about God that when we are experiencing our worst God can do something we find impossible to ever think He is actually doing anything, but He does works that no other can do.
In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou hearest me.
Psalms 86:7 GNV
Sometimes we read ahead, then have to stop and go back to catch up. Acknowledging that God hears us in the day of our trouble makes it possible to see that even while we are in trouble we can see and know that even when we don't personally, physically recognize it He not only can do what no one else can do, but know also He is doing it inspite of our inability to recognize that He is doing it.
So as we whisper in the ear of the Lord may we rest assured that He has heard us and is doing or will do what is best.
Shew a token of thy goodness toward me, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me.
Psalms 86:17 GNV
May we not only ask that we may whisper in His ear, but praise Him letting Him know that He is our help, He is our comfort.