God's the Best Multitasker

Read Psalm 34:15-22

Context: David wrote this psalm when he pretended to be insane before Abimilech, who drove him away. This story can be found in 1 Samuel 21:10-15 (Abimilech is also called Achish)

Text:
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their cry;
16 the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.

18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

19 A righteous man may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;

20 he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.

21 Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.

22 The LORD redeems his servants;
no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him. (NIV)

taken from www.biblegateway.com

God's ways are not our ways, and often his ways are totally beyond my understanding. I'm a pretty good multi-tasker, but I have trouble listening to even three of our children and fix supper at the same time...can you imagine how crazy it must be in Heaven? God has to listen to millions of prayers and run the world at the same time as he answers requests from his backlog.

Yet somehow he can give his full attention to each one and he is eternally patient with our repeated prayers, our rants, our demands, and our feeble attempts to say what we mean. Of course he already knows what we need (and every once in a while that's exactly what we ask for), but he wants us to go to him and ask. He promises to hear us and deliver us from our trials. He doesn't promise to eliminate our troubles...just to deliver us from them in his timing.

Aren't you glad we don't have to stand in line to talk to him?