2. Hear the voice of my supplications. This
refers to the future as well as present pleadings. We cannot be put off with a
refusal when we are in the spirit of prayer; we labor and agonise until a
hearing is granted. The word supplications, in the plural, shows the
number, continuance, and variety of a good person’s prayers, while the
expression hear the voice seems to hint that there is an inner meaning,
or heart-voice, about which spiritual people are far more concerned than for
their outward and audible utterances. A silent prayer may have a louder voice
than the cries of those priests who sought to awaken Baal with their shouts. WhenI lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. This holy place was the type of
our Lord Jesus; and if we would gain acceptance, we must turn to the
blood-besprinkled mercy seat of his atonement. Uplifted hands have always been
a form of devout posture, and are intended to signify a reaching upward towards
God, a readiness, an eagerness to receive the blessing sought after. We stretch
out empty hands, for we are beggars; we lift them up, for we seek heavenly
supplies; we lift them towards the mercy seat of Jesus, for there our
expectation dwells. Oh that whenever we use devout gestures we may possess
contrite hearts, and so speed well with God.
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