Hear My Voice! (Psalms 128-130)

Psalms 130:2 (ESV Strong's)
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

Hear My Voice!!

We live in a society where people want to be heard.  When they are not heard, they seem to make more noise so that you can’t ignore them.  In corporate America we spend millions of dollars on marking sure leadership is listening to followership.   It is doubtful that when the industrial revolution began that Henry Ford spent much time listening to his workers; making sure they had a “voice” in the making of the first automobiles.   Today’s customers want to be “heard.”   We spend much time and money in market research to hear customers concerns and wants.   Steve Jobs shocked the market place when he said or implied that customers don’t even know what they want until I tell them.   His comments seemed to be an affront to the free market system.   Husbands better for sure make sure their wives voices are being heard.

All this brings us to the above text.   In this psalm (A Song of the Ascents) the writer is expressing a desire to be heard by God.   He/she wants their voice “heard.”    This is a cry to have God hear their call for mercy on themselves.     We can rejoice that this cry to have their voice heard is not like the board of a big corporation.    This is God.  God has promised to listen and to hear.  David told us in Psalms 51 that God was listening to him and would cleanse him from his iniquity.    The writer of this song is also in a bad place.   In verse one he says he is in the “depths of the waters.”    Yet, in the “depths” he knows he can cry and be heard.   We have no worries that God hears us.  The God of the universe hears the cries of the saints.   We can rejoice in the fact that our cries for mercy have been heard.  God sent His Son to respond to those cries.  He gives us mercy through the redemptive work of Christ.   We are not only “heard” but God provides the action behind His listening and hearing us to give is mercy!!