Too Busy To Pray Psalm 102:1

1 Hear my prayer, Oh Lord, and let my cry come to You. Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble.



David prays this prayer over and over again. He asks God for protection against his enemies. He asks God for healing when he is sick. He asks God to bless the nation. He asks God to be patient with him and he asks God to give him patience. David goes to God on his knees crying out to God again and again and again. It is as if he is praying to God or singing to God songs of thanksgiving and praise. It is as if David cannot get through a day without making God a part of it.

Perhaps this is what is wrong with our lives today. David’s life was consumed with God’s presence and with God’s power. He wanted God’s divine favor to guide him. David wanted God’s grace to surround him. He wanted God’s blessings in his life. David wanted what God had for him more than what the world had for him.

Look at what is so important in our lives. We get up in the morning and rush to get everyone up to go in their respective directions. We go to work or to school and we barely take time to consider the blessing of life that we so much take for granted. We are not thankful to God for all that He has done for us. we don’t take the time to praise Him for all that He has done for us and all that He is doing for us even at this moment. We are not even thankful, as we should be. Too many of us fail to even thank Him for the food that we eat; we are too busy to give thanks at the table or we are in public and are ashamed to bow our heads and give Him thanks for what we are about to eat and ask Him for His blessings on the rest of our day.

How many of us take some time during the day to sit down and spend time in His word because He is an important part of our lives and His Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light for our path so we might not sin against Him. It is no wonder that our faith is so shallow; we do not know Who He is and we are not aware of His promises to us.

How many times do we lay our heads down to go to sleep and we are so exhausted to even say a prayer of thanksgiving for the blessings of the day? How many days do we go through and it is as if there are no blessings for us to be thankful for when we lay down? Our lives are all messed up. Our families are in trouble. Our finances are a wreck. Our jobs are not fulfilling. It is as if our lives are running at full throttle headed nowhere.

Perhaps the reason is we are trying to do things on our own instead of taking the time to give God our prayers and our praise. Perhaps the reason that our lives are so difficult is we don’t take the time to give God His due place in our lives and in our days. He is not interested in our service to Him on Sunday. He wants our devotion on a daily basis.

Time is precious. Days go by so fast. There is never enough time to get everything done that we want to get done. so, why should we eliminate the most important part of our day and our lives? Why should we fail to give God the glory and the honor that He so much deserves in our lives? Perhaps if we did, our lives would slow down and our joy would increase and our troubles decrease and our blessings begin to overflow!

There are two things that are certain. If we continue doing what we have always done, we will continue to get what we have always gotten. If we are to busy for God, we are too busy and we need to do something about it and we need to do something today.


><> Pastor Bob