Upon your walls, Jerusalem,
I have appointed sentinels.
Continually, all day and all night,
they won’t keep silent.
You who call on the LORD, don’t rest,
and don’t allow God to rest
until he establishes Jerusalem,
and makes it the praise of the earth.
Prayer. I think if you have been in a church for one sunday morning you can probably see that the activity of praying is quite important. Right? However this passage brings the activity of prayer to a new level. In this passage…
God appoints sentinels to pray.
Continuing all day and all night.
That they won’t keep silent.
God desires to be bothered by the children so much that He appoints some to bother Him.
God says you, my children will not stop bothering me with your words, to the point of annoying me.
What an amazing picture of how much God desires to hear from you and I! Seriously this is epic! God delights in hearing from his children. He craves it. He is begging for it. He must experience it!
Wow.
So maybe the next time we think that God doesn’t listen when we pray or that he doesn’t or couldn’t care about wretches like us…..remember that the Author and Creator of this world….the universe…..the heavens……delights in hearing your voice.
Wow.
So in that spirit….
Let us pray.