Another great prayer for me to engage in this morning came via Psalm 74. It has been my reality at times and describes my need to pray. I will not argue right now whether it was the consequence of sin or simply the effects of living in a fallen world, but there were times when it really felt like the world had turned upside down. I have even felt, during those times, that God had “put me on the shelf.”

Why have you abandoned us like this, O God?
    Will you be angry with your own people forever?
Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,
    whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe.
    Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived. – Psalm 74:1-2 GNT

Even so, I have still responded to God in prayer. I go to God with all of my frustrations and my requests.

Why?

But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord’s sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same. – 2 Peter 3:8 GNT

I gain perspective on prayer when I remember that God’s relation to time is different than my own.

“The big idea of the Christian life is coram Deo. Coram Deo captures the essence of the Christian life.” – R.C. Sproul

I know that the easy route is to become impatient when God seems to take His time answering my prayer. That might even turn to frustration and there I might find myself in trouble. It is in knowing that God’s timetable matters more and it is one I can trust that helps me remember that He moves at the proper time. So I pray knowing this.

If we pray without meditation our own communion with God becomes poor and distant – Edmund Clowney, Christian Meditation