We are more dependent on the Lord than we will ever realize. How wonderful that out of His great love, He provides for us in so many ways, and so much of the time when we’re not even aware of it. The Bible encourages us to call on the Lord continually to show His sovereign fatherly care for His children. He loves us so much that He wants to bless us by entering into our lives to make our days full of joy. His desire is more than just to save us from our sins and give us eternal life in heaven. He wants for us to see each day that He is the one who finds great joy in meeting our every need. Such is His glorious infinite goodness. We honor Him when we recognize that we need Him and therefore trustingly call on Him to meet those needs in our lives.
When it comes to hymns, we have ample resources to provide us the words to sing such longing musical prayers to Him. We would immediately think of hymn phrases like “I need Thee, O I need Thee,” “guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,” “all I have needed Thy hand hath provided,” “all the way my Savior leads me,” and countless others. They find great support in the many Psalms that remind us that God hears and answers prayer, such as in Psalm 34:17-18, “When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”