Psalms 116:2

Psalms 116:2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

"He hath inclined his ear" - stooped down, as it were, as you do to a sick person to catch his faintest word. "He hath inclined his ear." He has heard my prayer, when I could hardly hear it myself. When it was such a broken prayer, such a feeble prayer, that I was afraid I had not prayed, yet he heard me. He inclined his ear, and "therefore will I call upon him as long as I live." That is, I will never leave off praying, and I will never leave off praising.This is the best gratitude we can show to God. Now, if a beggar were to say to us, "If you will help me today, I will beg of you as long as ever I live," we should not be very thankful to him; but when we say this to God, he is glad, for he wants us to be thus continually calling upon him.