| The world and nominal Christendom has a saying that God helps those who help themselves. But there are many times when we cannot help ourselves, when “the journey is too great for thee.” But in such times, “He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness,” and how blessed and encouraging it is to know that “He shall deliver … him that hath no helper.” So, when “trouble is near [and] there is none to help,” and when we cry to Him to “give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man,” we can be sure that though “I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me,” and “He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper,” for “He forgetteth not the cry of the humble,” and “the poor committeth himself to Thee; Thou art the helper of the fatherless.” “He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.” “The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy.” |
