OFTEN THE ONLY PRAYER we have is "Help!" I use this one on a daily basis, that is, whenever I am confronted with the truth of my condition.
The word translated "hasten" comes from the Hebrew word "chush," which means to hurry,
to act quickly, or to come quickly. The Psalms often plead urgently, "hasten to help
me" (chushah l’ezrati).
An old Jewish prayer says, "O ETERNAL, I know that you will help us; but will you help us before you will help us?"
Although the ETERNAL sometime tarries, He declares, "I am SOVERIEGN; in its time I will hasten
it" (Isa. 60:22). But still the anxious heart sighs, “Is it time, ETERNAL? Will you now restore
the kingdom to Israel?” But as Yahushua said, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority" (Acts 1:6-7). We are left waiting for the ultimate Elohim’s answer: His glorious coming to fulfill our salvation.
Living in the “already-not-yet” state of redemption is a soul-building venture that helps us
to acquire the precious middah (quality) of patience:
"In your patience possess ye your souls" (Luke 21:19).
Suffering produces endurance (Rom. 5:3), but the ETERNAL surely is faithful "to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy" (Jude 1:24). May He come speedily, and in our day. Omein.
