"Needy Persistence"

"Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy upon me, and answer me." (Psalms 27:7) This is the point of needing reassurance that God is listening, and that He will acknowledge our prayer of praise; not that we need to actually hear from Him, because that's not what David is talking about; it's more about our hearts being drawn towards God, and earnestly wanting to be in His presence. God does not need to answer us as someone speaking to us when we ask a question; He will answer us by allowing us to gaze upon His beauty and His holiness, which is more than words could ever describe or explain. This verse is all about us being persistent in coming into God's glorious presence; remembering that we are flawed creatures, it is our need to come to God as one that is in a position of humility and awe of His pure and total righteousness; which is something that we fall far short of being able to have, therefore we are dependent upon God's mercy to allow us into His presence. That's what the cross of Christ is all about: bringing us into a condition of holiness by the forgiveness of sin, so that we have that opportunity  to enter into God's presence by having first been washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus washes us whiter than snow, making us objects of pure holiness in the sight of a Holy God; you can't get much cleaner than that! But it is our duty to persistently pursue His presence; as a child in need of being comforted by a parent, we are to be longing to be picked up and held by our Heavenly Father; that is our need, and it is how God responds! Take in what David is proclaiming here; as it is in the midst of praising God with all of His might, he now wants to be held by his Creator, the One that made him and gave him the ability to praise Him. We are born to need God... "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." (Isaiah 61:10 & 11)