God delights in saving the weak and the helpless. In the Old Testament, we often read of God's solicitude toward the poor and weak.
To be poor was to have no power and no respect. Taken that way, most people in the world could be classed as poor, even ordinary people in America.
Nowhere in Scripture are we told that God delights in saving the rich and powerful. But no matter how rich a man may be, he may come to God and be saved when he learns of his true weakness.
God will not receive a man who comes to him in riches and power and self-righteousness, but He delights to receive the poor and weak and save them!
When our Lord Jesus sets up His reign on David's throne, He will uphold the right of the poor and helpless. All the injustice heaped upon the miserable and weak will be swept aside by Jesus, because He will rule in righteousness and justice!
Our Lord Jesus made it clear in His ministry: He came to save the weak and the unrighteous, those bound by sin. Indeed, only the helpless, who come to him like children, can be saved.
God was pleased to reveal His gospel in Christ to babes and the unlearned. He delights in their salvation.
The self-possessed, those who view themselves as successful and composed and well-off, will never come to Christ pleading for mercy. Instead, they will ask, as the rich young ruler, what can they DO to inherit eternal life. And they can never do what it takes to save themselves.
Sometimes it seems to the world that the poor and helpless don't get much benefit from trust in God. But by faith we receive what has been promised us: eternal life and glory such as we cannot imagine!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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