"Hear My Answer"

I had a horrible day yesterday.

As the day was coming to a close, I felt a huge wave of depression sweeping over me. All I desired was a word from the Lord. I prayed, and cried out, yet I never felt completely at peace. Blaming it on exhaustion, I went to bed without reading my nightly devotion. When I awoke this morning, I knew I wanted to have a better day, and immediately began seeking God about it. It was clear--"Just spend some time with Me, Ally." I opened my devo book, and decided to read what yesterday's entry would have been, had I taken the time to read it.


"The cry of the human soul is never unheard. It is never that God does not hear the cry, but that man fails to hear the response (God's response).
Like parts of a machine, made to fit each into the other, and to work in perfect harmony, so is the human cry and the God-response.
But man treats this cry as if it were a thing alone, to be heard, or not, as it pleased God, not realizing that the response was there in eternity, awaiting the cry, and only man's failing to heed, or listen, kept him unaware of the response, and unsaved, unhelped by it."
God Calling, By: Two Listeners, Edited by A.J. Russell


How ironic, that the very words I needed, the very words that would have let me know that God was hearing my cry, were the very words that I neglected to receive. In addition, when I did go back and read them this morning, they not only met my need of yesterday, but they also guided me to understand how faulty my actions truly were.

Perhaps this isn't making sense, but it is ringing out loud and clear for me!

All irony aside, I must say that it is an amazingly comforting thought that "the response was there in eternity, awaiting the cry". My answer, your answer, the answer of generations to come, is already filed away in eternity, simply awaiting a listening ear. I am notorious for crying out to God and begging for direction from Him. But how often do I stop to listen to what He has been saying all along?


"The cry of the human soul is never unheard. It is never that God does not hear the cry, but that man fails to hear the response."