Psalms 55:2. Attend unto me, and hear me:
That is three times he thus implores God to give him a hearing. It reminds me of that Gethsemane pleading of our Lord when thrice he prayed using the same words. Here David begins - makes his exordium in prayer with a threefold cry to God. "Give ear to me; hide not thyself from me; attend unto my prayer, and hear me."
Psalms 55:2. I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Sometimes prayer is scarcely articulate. "I make a noise." He was very free with God. He spoke out his heart as best his heart would speak, and he seemed to ramble. I believe that some of our sweetly-composed prayers have no prayer in them, and some of our broken petitions are those that reach the heart of God. "Groanings that cannot be uttered" are prayers that cannot be refused. There may be most strength in the passion of the soul when there is least order in the expression of the soul. "I mourn in my complaints, and make a noise."
Psalms 55:2. Attend unto me, and hear me:
That is three times he thus implores God to give him a hearing. It reminds me of that Gethsemane pleading of our Lord when thrice he prayed using the same words. Here David begins - makes his exordium in prayer with a threefold cry to God. "Give ear to me; hide not thyself from me; attend unto my prayer, and hear me."
Psalms 55:2. I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Sometimes prayer is scarcely articulate. "I make a noise." He was very free with God. He spoke out his heart as best his heart would speak, and he seemed to ramble. I believe that some of our sweetly-composed prayers have no prayer in them, and some of our broken petitions are those that reach the heart of God. "Groanings that cannot be uttered" are prayers that cannot be refused. There may be most strength in the passion of the soul when there is least order in the expression of the soul. "I mourn in my complaints, and make a noise."