Then King David went in and sat before the LORD...2 Samuel 7:18

What follows after this text is a great prayer, a prayer I’ve heard over the years. It’s a prayer of praise and worship and gratefulness. But it came from a man who was desperately seeking God. He sat before the LORD. I’m not sure what that means precisely but it implies that he just waited. I can see in my mind’s eye a man sitting in the presence of true greatness waiting to hear wisdom and truth.

It’s a simple thing really, to wait for the LORD. Certainly David prayed, but I suspect that he did more waiting than praying. Of course I don’t know that for a fact but based on his previous encounters in worship and dancing, he was giving it all he had. He seemed to be spiritually in tuned with God (remember he gave up the ark of the LORD for three months because someone in his party had touched the ark).

We all know that sitting in the LORD’s presence is worthwhile. We know benefits us in ways we don’t even know, and yet it’s very difficult for us to do. Perhaps we’re expecting too much of ourselves. Maybe we fail because we think that we could never sit in His presence for an hour or more. Who says we have to do that?

Try it for two minutes, then five minutes, then ten. The more we practice it, the easier it becomes.

He’ll wait with us.