Psalm 146:6 (The Message)
Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing!
Hebrews 13:6
So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
Psalm 121:1
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
All of mankind benefits from His marvelous benevolence. Those of us called to the Truth have the added benefit of knowing Him from whom our help comes. This Psalm asks us to broaden our experience, to look around us and see who else looks to him for help, sustenance, hope. He causes it to rain on the just; you and I. He also brings the same life giving rain on the unjust; the ‘thems’. Oftentimes, we are closed off to the ‘thems’. We don’t ‘see’ them among us. We overlook ‘them’. There are in our blind spot. They live amongst us, but they don’t often worship with us, therefore we don’t consider them to be part of our ‘family’.
Psalm 146:7
He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free,
Psalm 9:9
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Psalm 103:6
The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
But God see them. He sees them and He loves them. I want you to know… that God fights for the weak. He hears and responds to the cry of the poor. In quiet and sometimes not so quiet desperation, they cry out to Him… and He hears. I want you to know… that God yearns for the fatherless, the widow, the outcast, the down trodden.
Psalm 146:8
the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
Psalm 145:14
The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
There are a couple of reasons people find themselves ‘bowed down’. One is voluntary; an act of submission and worship, something we can all use more ofJ. The other is involuntary and comes as a result of the circumstances that life brings our way. There are many who are bowed down among us. They silently bear the pains and burdens of a life gone awry. They are bowed by the weight of the world (figuratively) on their shoulders. God sees them, He sees all that are bowed down and He cares. Whether it is a ‘Mephibosheth’; who was afflicted from his youth, or a ‘Ruth’; a stranger in a strange land, there is room at the King’s table for the least among us.
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
Mark 16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
The beauty of what we do is that;’ they’re right here’. There are people among us who need help. Open your hearts, open your minds. Pay attention to your surroundings. Listen to the stories of despair that are around you. There’s something you can do. You’ve been empowered, but for what cause? That cause is before you Beloved. It’s His cause: the plight of the poor, the weak, the hungry. May we (me included) remove the blinders from eyes and see who God sees among us and, in agreement with Him, roll up our sleeves and reach out a helping hand to those who need it. Most of the time, they are just an arms length away.
Shalom,
.wb
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