TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Memorize this Verse: (Cover the verse text and using just the first letters of each word try to recite the entire passage.)
1. I W P F T L A H I U M A H M C
Margin, as in Hebrew, “In waiting I waited.” That is, “I continued to wait.” It was not a single, momentary act of expectation or hope; it was continuous; or was persevered in. The idea is, that his prayer was not answered at once, but that it was answered after he had made repeated prayers. Or when it seemed as if his prayers would not be answered. It is earnest, persevering prayer that is referred to. It is continued supplication and hope when there seemed to be no answer to prayer, and no prospect that it would be answered.
“And he inclined unto me”: That is, ultimately, he heard and answered me. Or he turned himself favorably toward me, as the result of “persevering” prayer. The word “inclined” here means properly “bowed;” that is, he “bent forward” to hearken, or to place his ear near my mouth and to hear me. At first, he seemed as one that would not hear; as one that throws his head backward or turns his head away. Ultimately however, he bent forward to receive my prayer.
“And heard my cry”: The cry or supplication which I made for help. The cry which I directed to him in the depth of my sorrows and my danger (Psalm 40:2). As applied to the Redeemer, this would refer to the fact that in his sorrows, in the deep sorrows connected with the work of redemption, he persevered in calling on God, and that God heard him, and raised him up to glory and joy (see Matt. 26:36-46 and compare the notes at Heb. 5:7). The time supposed to be referred to, is after his sufferings were closed. After his work was done and “after” he rose from the dead. It is the language of grateful remembrance which we may suppose he uttered in the review of the amazing sorrows through which he had passed in making the atonement. And in the recollection that God had kept him in those sorrows, and had brought him up from such a depth of woe to such a height of glory.
This is a virtue that very few have. To wait on the Lord is blessed. David is speaking in the verse, but the verse is probably prophetic in speaking of the great patience of our Lord Jesus in the preceding paragraph. Jesus cried out unto the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, and God heard His cry. God always hears the prayers of His own. He never turns a deaf ear to us either. Perhaps our problem many times, is that we tire of waiting.
Old Testament
Zechariah 6-9 — 8.0 minutes
Job 41:1-11 — 2.0 minutes
New Testament
John 20:24-31 — 2.5 minutes
Revelation 20 — 5.0 minutes
Total Average Read Time — 17.5 minutes
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