“Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me! You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.” Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation! For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.” -Psalm 27:7–10
Here we learn what it looks like to wait on the Lord when an answer to prayer doesn’t seem to be coming soon enough. There is a hint of anxiety in David’s “crying aloud,” and he petitions the Lord to be gracious and answer him, not to hide his face, or turn him away in anger.
David also reminds the Lord that it was he who commanded his people to seek his face when they are in need, and that he had answered his prayers in the past. Since the Lord has always been faithful previously, and since he is praying as he ought, The Lord should not forsake him this time either.
In verse ten, David, metaphorically speaking, compares God’s faithfulness to that of his own parents’ faithfulness. Who is committed to another more than a parent is to a child; and yet, there is no comparison to such love and commitment as the Lord’s for David. For even good parents are human and have limitations. But the Lord has no limitations on his love for his own. He will always take in his children–even the prodigal ones.