Read: Psalm 72
Psalm 72:12 “For He will deliver the needy when he crieth and the poor that hath no helper.”
Can we count on that?
For none of us is without his need, none of without his poverty, not only poverty of purse but poverty of spirit. The poor that hath no helper! There are poverties which no human helper can relieve.
Days come when our need of strength is desperate. We seem to be touching bottom and wonder if we can go on. It may be a sorrow, or a disappointment, or just the drudgery of life, that has brought us down. And at such a time it is well to remember that the Lord shall deliver, the needy when he crieth. We can be sure of the love of God – sure that nothing can take away His love, and He will keep us from being quitters on our job.
Life itself is never hurt by trouble. Life does not depend, for quality, on the things we lack or the luxuries we have. Life depends on what we are, and on what the Great Artificer can make out of us. What if the worst comes, and what if we do touch bottom? God can turn the worst into the best, if we will trust in Him. He can turn burdens into wings, drudgery into song.
O Thou, whose grace doth ever keep us and whose love can never fail, save us in times of weariness from giving up, and reconcile us to the cross we carry, and heal our poverties with the riches of Christ; in His Name. Amen.
