Of all 150 Psalms, Psalm 34 is my absolute favorite. It is all about Yehovah's faithfulness to deliver His children from great trials and crises. David declares, “I sought Yehovah, and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears…The angel of Yehovah encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them…The righteous cry out, and Yehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles… Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yehovah delivers him out of them all” (Psalm 34:4,7,17,19).
Note David’s claim in this Psalm: “I sought Yehovah…this poor man cried….” (34:4, 6). When did David do this crying out? It had to have happened when he was feigning madness in Gath and yet he couldn’t have prayed audibly in the Philistines’ presence. This brings us to a great truth regarding Yehovah’s deliverance. Sometimes the loudest cry is made without an audible voice.
I know what this kind of “inner crying out” is like. Many of the loudest prayers of my life; my most important, heartwrenching, deepest cries; have been made in total silence.
At times I’ve been so benumbed by circumstances that I couldn’t speak, overwhelmed by situations so beyond me that I couldn’t think clearly enough to pray. On occasion, I’ve sat alone in my study so baffled that I was unable to say anything to Yehoah at all, but the whole time my heart was crying out: “Father, help me! I don’t know how to pray just now, so hear the cry of my heart. Deliver me from this situation.”
Have you ever been there? Have you ever thought, “I don’t know what this is all about? I’m so overwhelmed by my circumstance, so flooded by deep pain, I can’t explain it. Father, I don’t even know what to say to you. What is going on?”
I believe this is exactly what David went through when he was captured by the Philistines. When he wrote Psalm 34, he was making an admission: “I was in a situation so overwhelming that I played the part of a fool. Yet, inside I wondered, ‘What is going on with me? How has this happened? Father, help!’”
And so it seems David was saying, “This poor man cried out from within, not knowing what or how to pray. And Yehovah heard me and delivered me.” It was a deep cry from the heart, and Yehovah Elohim - God is faithful to hear every whimper no matter how faint.
Written by: David Wilkerson and edited by Bruce Lyon
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