It's Time to Get to Work, Lord
[It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.”
I’m thinking that some of our extreme “sovereignistic” brethren, had they lived back in David’s day, would have taken issue with him over the above statement. “How dare you tell God when He should work,” I can hear them say. This overly sens“itive attitude may impress those Christians still splashing around in the baby pool, but not those who have advanced to “waters to swim in.”
God takes into account that we are dust and part of humanity. After all, He did create us humans. Don’t ever forget, He sent His Son in our likeness with its many limitations. That is why He perfectly understands a Godly and sincere man as Jeremiah, when he says to His Maker, “O Lord, thou hast deceived me.” Free-will is no threat to sovereignty; in fact, it is necessitated by sovereignty; God can always check-mate the former when He chooses.
Because of the spiritual condition in David’s time, a state obvious to all that possessed a Spiritual eye, David discerned it was time for God to move in and take the matter in hand. In the context, we see how David had diligently followed right and now appeals for God’s intervention. This is always an appropriate prayer when sin abounds. When we see such a condition in our nation, churches, families, or individual lives, we, too, can say to the Almighty, “It is time for thee, LORD, to work.”