Lord Hears Your Prayer

But He answered her not a word. (Mt.15, 23)

Who has not come to Christ with his heavy burden, who has not call unto Him in the midst of a deep sorrow  and who did not happen to think even once that Lord was silent to his prayers? Lord seems to not to say a word to many heated prayers. We are told: “Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find it; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Mt.7, 7). But there are times when we are not given what we are asking for wholeheartedly; when we don’t find what we are seeking; and when we knock at the door, but it remains shut.

Lord seems so distant at those moments, that our cry does not reach Him. There’s nothing worse than that feeling of alienation and estrangement from the Lord. We are ready to suffer anything but this. Then we call unto Him from out of the depths of our soul: “Be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit” (Ps.27, 1)

But let us not fall into despondency; let us remember the woman of Canaan, who expressed such a deep faith. Nothing could stop or embitter her in her flaming prayer to the Savior. Having tested that faith, Lord answered her.

Let us, too, remember, that “the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it can not save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear” (Is.59, 1) He always sees us, He hears our prayer. The sun is still shining at us behind the dark clouds, and the time will come, when the light of the Lord will shine upon us and Lord will let us know, that our prayer has reached Him.